The Bundeswehr Special Forces Command is increasingly in the spotlight after extreme right-wing incidents. Now hidden weapons have been found in one of the elite soldiers. The Minister of Defense becomes clear.
Berlin (AP) - The police have secured weapons and explosives on the private premises of a soldier from the Special Forces Command (KSK) in Saxony. According to information from the German Press Agency, the investigators came on the track through a notice from the Military Shield Service (MAD).
The supposed elite soldier had been in his field of vision for a long time. There is also a possible violation of the War Weapons Control Act.
The MAD had recently intensified its efforts to expose extremists in the ranks of the Bundeswehr. Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) said of the case: "Anyone who is radically noticeable in the Bundeswehr in any way has no place in our armed forces." Always act with "toughness and consistency".
After criticism from politics and the media, the MAD had revised its "toolbox" in order to sharpen the view to the right. 400 new posts were planned. With the constitutional protector Burkhard Even there is now a civilian vice president. In the past few years there has been an accumulation of right-wing extremist events in the KSK.
In its recently published first annual report, the MAD notes an overall increase in suspected right-wing extremists. "Identical relationships" between suspects via communication in social media and in real life were also recognized.
The MAD exposed 14 extremists ("Red" category): eight right-wing extremists, four Islamists and two so-called Reich citizens / self-administrators who deny the existence of the Federal Republic of Germany as a state. In addition, 38 suspects were found to be lacking constitutional loyalty (category "Orange"): 27 right-wing extremists, 4 Islamists, 3 Reich citizens / self-administrators, 3 from the field of political foreign extremism and a left-wing extremist.
