On 28 and 30 October 2019, the Sino-German Legal Cooperation Programme contributed to a week-long training course for 240 Chinese prosecutors, which was conducted by the Research Institute of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate of the People’s Republic of China at the Prosecutors’ College in Zhengzhou (Henan Province).
On the first day of the training course, Mr. Lafleur (senior public prosecutor at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Munich) and Mr. Dietzel (senior public prosecutor at the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Stuttgart) presented to the Chinese participants the organization of the Public Prosecutor’s Office in Germany, the problems of the gathering and evaluation of evidence in the German criminal procedural law and new developments in the prosecution of cyber- and narcotics crime in Germany. On the second day of the course, the two experts familiarized the participants with the theory and practice of public prosecutors’ professional ethics in Germany. In the subsequent question rounds, in addition to the topics of the expert lectures, numerous other criminal and criminal procedural questions were discussed.