Investigators are present because of the abuse scandal in Cardinal Marx’s official residence and in the administrative center of the Catholic Church in Munich. No suspicion is directed against Marx, but the action has political significance.
It should be a novelty in the relationship between the Bavarian judiciary and the Catholic Church, at least in the context of investigations into abuse in Munich: according to SZ information, the public prosecutor’s office and the criminal police visited the two headquarters of the archdiocese on February 16 – with a search warrant in their pockets. As the judiciary has long been criticized for being too lenient with the Church in the context of abuse, this is an act of great symbolic importance