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Prosecutor calls pillory for a pimp

The measure in Switzerland is highly unusual and occurs only rarely: The Zurich public Prosecutor Andreas Popov calls, that the judgment against a 46-year-old H

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Prosecutor calls pillory for a pimp

The measure in Switzerland is highly unusual and occurs only rarely: The Zurich public Prosecutor Andreas Popov calls, that the judgment against a 46-year-old Hungary "is published in a large-circulation newspaper in the Region of Budapest" – with the full name of the accused, confirmed by Popov on request.

The man is accused, among other things, several women from Hungary to Switzerland, and they have to be forced into Prostitution. In addition, he is the multiple marketing of extortion, of multiple sexual assault, accused of rape and other offences. Popov calls for a sentence of imprisonment of six years. The process will take place today, Wednesday, before the district court of Zurich. For Hungary, the presumption of innocence applies.

Deprecated measure

Prosecutor Popov refers in its claim to the criminal code. This holds under article 68: "Is required authorized the publication of a criminal judgment is in the public interest, in the interest of the injured or of the Application, it shall order the court at the expense of the Convicted person."

The article 68 is also referred to as a punishment in the Pillory. Until 1975, the provision still played an important role. Convictions for driving intoxicated and had to be published until then, in the case of repetition. The aim was to inform the private environment of the offender. Since the media report regularly on court cases, has lost the arranged publication importance.

"but It also has a General preventive effect, if potential victims are to be made on the offender's attention."Regula Echle, attorney

The publication in a newspaper or the official journal follow two basic effects, says Regula Echle, who works in Solothurn as a Prosecutor and in the Basel commentary to the article 68 work. On the one hand, an offender will be deterred by this measure, to repeat the action. "But it also has a General preventive effect, when potential victims are made by the publication, on the offender's attention." Today, article search, however, hardly any application.

Multiple relapse

One of these exceptions was a judgment of the circuit court of Altstätten in the Canton of St. Gallen. At the behest of the court, a number of regional and national Newspapers, published in 2013, a judgment of a man who had been convicted of commercial fraud, forgery and money laundering to imprisonment for a term of five years. Had used it a little. The man was shortly after his conditional release, again, multiple relapse, reported in the "St. Galler Tagblatt".

What newspaper would publish in Budapest, the judgment to what extent, determined in accordance with the criminal code the court. The cost for the newspaper ad would be imposed on the accused.

Created: 20.11.2019, 12:30 p.m.

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