Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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Germany is one of the countries where using public transport without a valid ticket is a crime. But questions are regularly raised as to whether this is a good thing. Here are the arguments for and against the decriminalization of fare evasion.

Chapters:
00:00 The justice minister goes rogue?
00:45 Penalty fare
01:47 Criminal law
03:13 Simple mistakes
04:36 There are a lot of prosecutions
05:20 The case for decriminalization
07:31 The case against decriminalization
08:30 There are other options

Music:
"Hot Swing"
by Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Creative Commons Attribution licence

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