Munich – According to Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU), more and more falsified vaccination certificates are in circulation.
The police registered around 110 cases of false vaccination cards or certificates at the beginning of September, a few weeks later the number was over 800 – and the number of unreported cases is much higher: “We have to assume that de facto there is still a lot there are larger numbers, ”said Herrmann on Friday to Bayerischer Rundfunk.
“It’s not a trivial offense to forge something like that.” Other people were deceived because they believed that there were only vaccinated and recovered people around them, but that in fact “others smuggled in with forged certificates,” the interior minister said.
He also announced that the police will scrutinize the controls of the 2G or 3G rules more strictly. Landlords or, for example, operators of cinemas would have to take the admission regulations seriously and check the evidence: “In the event of a recurrence, if it turns out a second or third time that an operator is not carrying out the controls seriously and simply waves people through, he must expect that to be the case Store is closed. “
Regarding the police union representatives’ criticism of the workload of the officers, Herrmann said: “Of course I also know about the heavy burden on the police.” It is a matter of setting the right priorities: “But then there might be less speed control in the next few days and instead, checks are carried out to determine whether the conditions for containing the corona pandemic are being met. “