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Information from secret discussions of the Defense Committee was made public.
The chairwoman urges prosecution.
Berlin - 105 people took part in a special meeting of the Bundestag's Defense Committee, from which information about the Taurus cruise missile was made public.
This emerges from a letter from committee chairwoman Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) to Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD), from which the
Rheinische Post
quotes on Monday (March 18).
The participants are now facing criminal investigations for possible betrayal of secrets.
Treason of secrets in the Defense Committee: “Not necessarily from parliamentary space”
With the letter dated last Friday, Strack-Zimmermann informed Bundestag President Bas about the process.
Information from the secret meeting was published in a media report.
According to the Rheinischer Post
, the letter states that
a total of around 105 people took part in the “defense committee meeting in question, including numerous representatives of the federal government and state representatives.”
“It is therefore not necessary that the information was passed on from the parliamentary area,” the FDP politician continues.
She asks Bas to authorize criminal prosecution for violation of official secrecy and a special duty of secrecy.
Track-Zimmermann: “Nevertheless, I would like to inform you of the above facts and request that authorization for criminal prosecution be granted in accordance with Section 353 b Paragraph 4 of the Criminal Law so that the matter can be investigated.”
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) in a Bundestag debate on the Bundeswehr's “Taurus wiretapping scandal”.
© Michael Kappeler/dpa
Russia was listening in: Bundeswehr officers were talking about possible Taurus deployment
The committee meeting was scheduled on Monday last week in response to a Russian eavesdropping attack on a message from four Bundeswehr officers in which they had discussed a possible Taurus deployment by the Ukrainian army.
Details from the secret part of the meeting were apparently then
passed on to the
t-online portal.
Specifically, the secret part of the meeting was about technical details about target data planning by Inspector General Carsten Breuer.
Strack-Zimmermann announced on Friday that he would contact the public prosecutor's office about the matter.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) also spoke out in favor of clarification.
“Betrayal of secrets is something that must not take place,” he said on Saturday.
(
skr/AFP/dpa
)