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SPD security officer Gabriele Katzmarek
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The vote on the new Infection Protection Act was already a week ago - but the vote is still preoccupying the politicians involved.
The publicly visible roll-call voting list has been circulating on Telegram for days, sometimes under the name "Death List of German Politicians".
Opponents of the corona measures are trying to intimidate parliamentarians.
The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has now informed the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag about the process. According to the assessment, there is no endangerment for the members of the Bundestag, but the BKA will further clarify the danger situation, it said in a letter from the SPD security officer and parliamentary manager Gabriele Katzmarek to the parliamentary group. She called on the members to get in touch if they noticed anything directly or in their environment.
In the Bundestag last Wednesday, a majority of MPs voted for the new law and thus also for the nationwide corona emergency brake.
Last week there were violent protests in front of the Reichstag building against the adoption.
A total of 342 members of the grand coalition voted for the law.
AfD, Left and FDP voted against, the Greens abstained.
Dozens of lawsuits pending before the Federal Constitutional Court
There had been criticism of the decision.
For example, the Society for Freedom Rights (GFF) announced a lawsuit - although the mechanism had been weakened before the vote.
The law, which has been in force since the weekend, stipulates that affected regions must combat the spread of the virus with more stringent measures if the seven-day incidence exceeds the threshold of 100 for three days in a row.
Dozens of cases are pending before the Federal Constitutional Court because of the federal emergency brake.
Some complaints are directed against the entire package of measures, others only against individual points.
The FDP had also sued.
As reported by the “Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung” among others, the roll-call voting list circulated after the Bundestag vote in a Telegram group in Baden-Württemberg under the title “List of our enemies”.
The MPs had been vilified, and individual messages could be understood as a call to violence.
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