Opposition calls for clarification: "just networks" suspected by the Bundeswehr

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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

According to reports in the media, right-wingers would have connected to the Bundeswehr. There is talk of an "army of the shadow". The military protection service denies, but the defense committee is now looking into the matter.

The Greens and the left have called on the Ministry of Defense to clarify the information reported by the media about alleged right-wing networks in the Bundeswehr. Politicians criticized after a meeting of the defense committee, there are unanswered questions. The "Focus" and the "Tageszeitung" have reported the existence of so-called far-right networks or even a "ghost army" with links to special units.

"The Defense Committee needs to clarify the events in the presence of the military shield service at another session," said Green Defense Minister Agnieszka Brugger. Leftist politician Christine Buchholz said that a danger is systematically trivialized. She added that there was "concrete evidence of a radical right-wing network suspected of stockpiling weapons and preparing for serious acts of violence for the" Xth day ".

According to the Military Protection Service (MAD), nothing indicates the existence of violent extremist networks in the Bundeswehr. MAD head Christof Gramm recently said: "Political violence plays no part in the Bundeswehr." A lieutenant-colonel MAD must respond shortly before the Cologne District Court of a secret betrayal in the case of the far-right soldier of the Bundeswehr, Franco A. The officer reportedly warned the suspects of the scope of Franco A. that the Attorney General would conduct an investigation in September 2017.

The case of Franco A. had made important waves. According to the indictment, Offenbach's first-clbad lieutenant allegedly prepared an attack on a politician or human rights defender, in an extreme perspective. right. According to the Frankfurt regional court, however, it is "unlikely" that the soldier was already determined to commit an attack. The Higher Regional Court explained that there was not enough suspicion that he had prepared a serious and damaging act of violence for the state.

Source: n-tv.de