Guest in the Studio: the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Justice Philipp Fernis - 17:30live Rheinland Pfalz/Hessen

At the end of last year, there were over 930,000 open investigative proceedings nationwide – an increase of 30 percent since 2021. Last year, more than 60 suspects had to be released from custody because their criminal proceedings could not be processed in time. In the spring, the German Richter Federation spoke of an imminent "overburden of the rule of law". And how bad is it about the justice system in Rhineland-Palatinate? We ask about the re…