After the leaflet affair surrounding Bavaria’s Deputy Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger, the public prosecutor’s office is investigating a former teacher of the Free Voters leader. There is an initial suspicion of a violation of official and private secrets, a spokesman for the Regensburg public prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. Basically, it is checked whether the man has committed a criminal offense through possible “unauthorized disclosure”. First he had Daily Mirror reported.
According to the public prosecutor’s office, the proceedings have been running since the beginning of September. The investigation was initiated after various reports as a result of reporting in connection with the leaflet affair. Aiwanger came under pressure as a result of the affair a few weeks before the state elections after the Southgerman newspaper had reported that an anti-Semitic leaflet had been found at his school.
Several media outlets reported that a former teacher was said to have passed on the letter. Aiwanger’s brother later said that he had written the leaflet. After Aiwanger answered a list of questions and apologized, Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) decided not to dismiss him as minister.