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Event arena “a prime example of lack of transparency”: Susanne Günther senses cheating

2020-09-22T12:56:17.351Z


Green city councilor Susanne Günther senses fussing about the planned event arena. In the Finance Committee meeting, she flashed her allegations. 


Green city councilor Susanne Günther senses fussing about the planned event arena.

In the Finance Committee meeting, she flashed her allegations. 

Freising / Airport - The dossier from the Ministry of Finance on the planned construction of an event arena at Munich Airport has also reached the Freising City Council.

At the end of the meeting of the finance committee on Monday evening, Green Councilor Susanne Günther insisted, hinting at machinations and cheating between Mayor Tobias Eschenbacher and FSM parliamentary group leader Reinhard Fiedler on the one hand, and Lorenz Schmid as managing director of the investor and FMG on the other.

And: The way the Event Arena project has been approached so far is "a prime example of lack of transparency".

The paper, which was apparently inadvertently sent to the Greens MdL Johannes Becher when he received an answer to his request from the state government, is explosive, said Günther.

Because there are problems and concerns about the project that the Freising Greens also had, but which were "swept off the table" in the non-public meetings.

What is explosive is that, according to the dossier, Fiedler was, so to speak, a “promoter”, so Günther, with members of the state parliament, because managing director Schmid is a good friend of his - and that at a time when the topic was not yet to be dealt with publicly.

Susanne Günther (Greens): "Who knew how much when?"

Günther also questioned the role of the mayor.

Finally, after the non-public meeting of the Elders' Council, he informed the FMG authorized signatory Josef Schwendner that he and the councilors were quite open to the project.

Günther: “Who knew how much, when?” The Ministry of Finance is aware of so many facts about the project that “we supposedly don't know,” she said.

And the dossier from the Ministry of Finance also mentions that "Family S from H have very good contacts with you," Günther tried to put the mayor under further pressure.

Eschenbacher countered that his role was that of the man who represents the licensing authority.

Point.

It is normal for him to inform the airport, after all, there are constant discussions with FMG.

At one of them he was asked about this topic.

And further: If, in Günther's view, it is not transparent to inform the city council before any planning process is initiated, then it can be handled differently in the future and projects can only be submitted to the councils when the applications have actually been formulated, received and processed .

And if there are "very good contacts" that an investor asks for a conversation with him and that then takes place, then he actually has good contacts to the investor - although he does not know whether "Mr. S from H" is meant.

Fiedler explained that Schmid had approached him before the meeting of the council of elders to ask which political authorities had to be informed "so that nobody would be offended".

He, Fiedler, then took on the task of informing the three members of the state parliament from the district - Florian Herrmann (CSU), Benno Zierer (FW) and Johannes Becher (Greens) - about the project.

After the council of elders meeting, he informed the MdL trio about the mood among the city councils.

No more and no less.

Peter Warlimont (SPD): "Completely inappropriate to want to suggest machinations." 

Peter Warlimont (SPD) could not understand the excitement of Günther at all: How everything has gone so far in the city is "completely normal".

And even in the dossier itself he can now find “no sensations”, he sees “no small bomb that opens our eyes”.

And he thinks it is completely inappropriate to want to suggest machinations.

Günther said that the main issue was the state government's lack of transparency towards members of the state parliament.

Source: merkur

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