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Despite suspicion of right-wing extremism: KSK officer is allowed to stay in the armed forces

2020-12-18T11:04:42.295Z


The Bundeswehr wants to get rid of the former KSK trainer Daniel K. - because they consider him a right-wing extremist. According to SPIEGEL information, a court has now stopped the soldier's release for the time being.


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KSK soldiers during training (archive picture from March 2017)

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A right-wing extremist instructor from the Special Forces Command (KSK) is allowed to stay with the Bundeswehr for the time being.

According to SPIEGEL information, the Baden-Württemberg Administrative Court prevented the officer's immediate dismissal, which was pronounced at the beginning of 2020.

The Defense Ministry had accused Lieutenant Colonel Daniel K. of fraudulent misrepresentation in his recruitment interview in 1991 when he failed to state that he had been a member of the NPD youth organization for around two years as a youth in the late 1980s.

The court, on the other hand, confirmed that K. had initially concealed his past.

However, before his appointment as a professional soldier and several times to superiors, he disclosed his membership in the "Young National Democrats".

The Bundeswehr had already suspended Daniel K. from service with the Second Command Company of the KSK in February 2019 because, according to the MAD, he was active in a closed Facebook group that is attributed to the right-wing extremist "Identitarian Movement".

K. denies this accusation, and the court also did not consider the suspicion to be compelling.

After his suspension, the officer was on sick leave due to post-traumatic stress disorder and depression.

For Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU), the judgment means a serious setback in the fight against right-wing extremist movements in the Bundeswehr.

After several right-wing extremists at the KSK had been exposed, Kramp-Karrenbauer had announced the "Iron Broom" operation to clean up the elite association and decided to dissolve the KSK's Second Command Company as part of a reform package.

Daniel K. is one of several KSK fighters who were removed from the elite association because of their political views and are to be released from the Bundeswehr.

In 2007, when he was a captain, the officer had already attracted attention because of a hate letter to a comrade.

At that time, however, only a disciplinary penalty was imposed.

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Source: spiegel

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