Project buys 110 black drivers from prison

You are released from prison: Today, the “Freedom Fund” project is buying around 110 people from custody nationwide who are sitting due to illegal driving. Connected to this is an appeal to the new Federal Minister of Justice Stefanie Hubig (SPD) The campaign said to end this practice.

If you “creeps in a trip without a ticket with the intention of not paying the fee”, according to Paragraf 265a of the Criminal Code, a prison sentence for up to one year or a fine. If the punishment is not paid, a so -called replacement imprisonment threatens. « Above all, unemployed, homeless and people with low incomes are affected, » said the « Freedom Fund ». The SPD wants to decriminalize the undeclaration for a long time.

« Now it becomes clear whether the SPD is on its word, » said « Freedom Fund » founder Arne Semsrott. Justice Minister Hubig had the chance to abolish paragraph 265a « and at the same time to relieve the judiciary and save taxes in the millions ». In total, the project had already released around 1,400 people from prison and saved the state around 20 million euros in accommodation costs.