Good question. There are probably some constellations where the police would be like: We got plenty of matching testimonies for you. We charge you and this could send you to jail for 80 years or you pleat guilty and accept 5 years.
Criminal Code (StGB)
§ Section 145d Pretending to have committed a criminal offense
(1) Any person who, contrary to his better knowledge, pretends to an authority or to a body competent to receive reports that an unlawful act has been committed […] shall be liable to a custodial sentence not exceeding three years or to a monetary penalty […].
Good question. There are probably some constellations where the police would be like: We got plenty of matching testimonies for you. We charge you and this could send you to jail for 80 years or you pleat guilty and accept 5 years.
On the other hand, I think in Germany you could be charged with pretending to have committed a crime.
That’s just filling a false report. That’s illegal almost anywhere, but you need to be more specific than what’s in the post.
but then the person wouldn’t been lying about having committed a crime
:D If this thread reaches the wrong people, society as we know it will end! What have we done!?