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 "The consequences of this approach"

"Die Konsequenzen dieser Denkweise"

We are talking about a national court that finds itself in the thicket not only of European AML- , KYC- and  terrorism-prevention-legislation, but in the swamp of whatever implementation of European standards in national law and, ... gets lost in the madness of standards and then - as Patrick writes in German - falls back or has to fall back on the “way of thinking”, i.e. a gut feeling. 

In addition, every judge at such a court is subject to pressure from within the authorities.

Then that's the result.

If the state did not have a monopoly on the use of force, and therefore the corresponding power structures, then I would laugh at this judgment. Smile at it with pity. 

That is not legal state law enforcement, that is an enforcement of beliefs.