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Breach in the security of the German Chancellor

2023-05-26T18:10:44.811Z

Highlights: The incident occurred at the airport in Tallinn, Estonia. The police are investigating the incident. The incident is not the first time a security breach has occurred at a Tallinn airport, according to reports. The Estonian government is investigating the matter as well as the airport authorities. The airport is under the control of the Estonian National Police Agency, which is responsible for airport security. The German government is also investigating, but the police say the incident was not the result of any wrongdoing on their part.


German Chancellor Olaf Scholz tried to relativize Friday a breach in his security, which saw a person approach him and...


German Chancellor Olaf Scholz tried Friday to relativize a breach in his security, which saw a person approach him and hug him this week on an airport runway, an incident deemed unacceptable by his interior minister. "For people to say hello and greet me, it's not something that impresses me, it's quite normal and I didn't feel this situation as dramatic," Scholz told a news conference during a visit to Tallinn, Estonia. "The police are doing a good job, I feel safe," he tried to reassure.

His own interior minister, Nancy Faeser, has been less diplomatic about police work. and the Chancellor's Close Protection Team. "Such an incident must not happen," she told reporters Friday during a trip. "The people concerned will now look very precisely at what happened, what mistakes were made, so that it does not happen again in the future," she added.

Intrusion under the influence of narcotics

The facts date back to Wednesday evening on a runway at Frankfurt airport. The chancellor was returning from an event at the European Central Bank and had just entered the tarmac with his government convoy. The police did not see that a man followed the convoy without permission and that he too entered the area to be forbidden to him.

When the chancellor got out of his car, the man in his fifties approached him, shook his hand and hugged him. He was then arrested by security and the prosecutor's office opened an investigation. According to Der Spiegel magazine, the intruder appears to have been under the influence of narcotics.

Source: lefigaro

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