Olaf Scholz tried to relativize a breach in his security. An incident deemed unacceptable by his Minister of the Interior.

According to Der Spiegel magazine, the intruder appears to have been under the influence of narcotics. The police had not seen the man who followed the convoy without authorization."Such an incident must not happen," said interior minister Nancy Faeser, who is on a trip to Tallinn in Estonia. "Those affected will now look very precisely at what happened, what mistakes were made"