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Chrupalla fails with a complaint towards the end of the investigation
Tino Chrupalla had to cancel an election campaign appearance in Ingolstadt in October 2023. photo
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Tino Chrupalla has to go to the hospital during the election campaign in Ingolstadt. He speaks of an attack, but the investigation has been stopped. The AfD leader doesn’t want to accept that.
The Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office rejected Chrupalla’s corresponding application, a spokeswoman for the Ingolstadt public prosecutor’s office told the German Press Agency in Munich. One reason Chrupalla’s lawyer cited for the complaint was that the investigators had not followed up on individual offers of evidence.
The weekly newspaper “Junge Freiheit” quoted from a letter from Chrupalla with more detailed reasons. Accordingly, the AfD leader complained that the investigation into the incident, after which he was treated in hospital, was “very incomplete”. Among other things, not all doctors who were involved in his initial treatment at the Ingolstadt clinic were heard as witnesses. The Ingolstadt public prosecutor’s office initially ordered this, but withdrew it a day later without explanation.
Letter not known to investigative authorities
The letter from which “Junge Freiheit” quoted in its report is not yet known to either the Munich Public Prosecutor’s Office as the supervisory authority or the Ingolstadt public prosecutor’s office, as both authorities said on Friday.
Chrupalla’s lawyer lodged his complaint against the termination of the investigation at the beginning of January, said a spokeswoman for the Ingolstadt public prosecutor’s office. Then a “detailed justification” was announced by January 15th. When this was still not available at the end of January, the authority submitted the complaint to Munich for a decision – and it was rejected there on February 7th.
It is not possible to comment on the content of the letter now quoted because it could be a “counter-notion” to the rejection of the complaint. This would be another, informal attempt by Chrupalla to ask the investigators to subsequently correct their decision. A possible examination of the letter cannot therefore be anticipated, said the spokeswoman for the Ingolstadt public prosecutor’s office.
Monitored in intensive care after incident
Chrupalla had to cancel a campaign appearance in Ingolstadt at the beginning of October 2023 – a few days before the state elections in Bavaria. Before his speech, he was taken to the hospital and temporarily monitored in the intensive care unit due to discomfort. After a day he was able to leave the clinic again. Doctors found a puncture wound in Chrupalla’s upper right arm.
The AfD leader spoke of an attack that had been carried out on him. “Overall, this attack on me can be seen as an attack,” he said a few days after the hospital treatment in Berlin. However, the public prosecutor’s office assessed the incident differently. The authority emphasized in December that no “act could be identified from which it could be concluded that there was an “attack”.
“The possibility that the injury was caused by an unknown person while staying at the Ingolstadt Theaterplatz cannot be ruled out,” said a spokeswoman for the authority in December. “However, the investigation did not reveal any concrete evidence or evidence of such an attack during the visit to the election campaign event or in the immediate run-up to the visit.”