Stalking: This is how the crime is punished

Stalking or reenactment is a crime. Perpetrators are punished with imprisonment or a fine. We inform you about the legal handling of stalking.

Stalking is considered a crime

Stalking or re-enactment involves harassing the victim through obsessive and long-lasting threats. The perpetrator harms the victim mentally or physically.

• Stalking is the pursuit and lurking of the person at work, home or in public.
• Stalking also includes constant attempts to reach the victim via SMS, email or phone calls.
• Misusing the victim's data and thereby ordering goods or services or getting third parties to contact the victim are also part of stalking. Evil also falls under the term.
• In severe cases, threats of physical violence against the victim or the relatives of the victim are added.
• Re-enactment is punished with a prison sentence of up to three years . A fine is also possible.
• A prison sentence of three months to five years is possible if the perpetrator has put the victim, the victim's relatives or loved ones close to death or has caused particularly serious physical injury.
• A prison sentence of one to ten years occurs in the event of the death of the victim, a relative of the victim, or other related person.
• If stalking is a matter of persecution, threat, data misuse, slander or other reenactment, the victim must file a criminal complaint for this behavior in order to initiate a punishment for the perpetrator.