Haars Mayor Andreas Bukowski (CSU) expects an apology from SPD councilor Peter Paul Gantzer, while he recommended the town hall chief to report himself.
Instead, Bukowski has filed a criminal complaint against Gantzer for defamation, and the SPD sees freedom of expression as threatened.
Haar
- On Tuesday evening, September 29,
Andreas Bukowski
should have declared
his criminal complaint at the request of the SPD in the “Mayor's Report”.
Instead, the mayor
replied to
Peter Paul Gantzer
by email
ten and a half hours before the start of the meeting
and also informed the parliamentary group chairmen and the press.
The legal dispute between him and Gantzer does not affect the jurisdiction of the municipal council.
That is why he did not want to go into it at the meeting.
He has shown that he cares a lot about good cooperation.
“We can still settle the conflict today,” writes the mayor to the political fox Gantzer, who was a
member of the state parliament
for
40 years
.
The trigger was an advertising photo in the advertising paper Hallo
The conflict was triggered by an advertising photo in the advertising paper "Hallo".
The mayor bought an electric car privately and approved the photo;
to set an example for environmentally friendly mobility, he explained.
The SPD criticized this in the local council on July 21.
Gantzer had said that he didn’t want to accuse the mayor of anything, but in this office it was essential to avoid any appearance of being accessible for advantages.
Whereupon Bukowski had offered that one could look at his leasing contract under normal conditions.
He didn't even take the cap that came with the car.
Criminal complaint for defamation against Peter Paul Gantzer (SPD)
After a clarifying discussion did not take place at first, Andreas Bukowski filed a criminal complaint against Peter Paul Gantzer on August 20.
This has gone public with the statement: Instead of reporting him, the mayor should have submitted a self-report to the district office for a legal classification of the advertisement after the car was bought.
SPD sees attack on freedom of expression
The SPD Haar sees the criminal complaint as an attack on freedom of expression;
the mayor explains that it is not about an opinion and the freedom to express it, but about examining a criminal offense.
Gantzer made false claims and did not withdraw them.
Bukowski sees the SPD's application as a “clumsy attempt at a perpetrator-victim reversal”.
Gantzer, however, considers the mayor to be “very badly advised” in this conflict.
Gantzer said in the afternoon in an interview with Münchner Merkur that he wanted to address the topic again in the local council in the evening.
And he will offer another interview.
Both sides will have to move.