As of: 09/22/2021 11:52 a.m.
The MAD is investigating an employee of the Ministry of Defense on suspicion of right-wing extremism. The man is said to have had access to sensitive data about deployments by the Bundeswehr and missions of the special forces.
The Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) is investigating a suspicion of right-wing extremism against a speaker in the Ministry of Defense. The ministry told the officers in the Defense Committee that it was a civilian employee against whom “security-relevant findings” were available ARD capital studio learned. First the “Spiegel” and the news agency dpa reported about it.
The suspect is therefore an employee from the strategy and operations department who had access to security-relevant processes and documents in the ministry. In the department, the operations of the Bundeswehr abroad are planned and controlled and all missions of the special forces of the Bundeswehr, the national risk and crisis management and the military intelligence are controlled.
What exactly the man is accused of is currently still unclear, according to “Spiegel”. The ministry said that until a decision was made in his case, he was forbidden from accessing a “security-sensitive activity”.
Further details on investigations at the KSK
According to “Spiegel”, the Ministry of Defense also gave details of two known cases of suspected right-wing extremism in the Special Forces Command (KSK), in which an officer and a non-commissioned officer are investigated.
A lieutenant is accused of having shared a “small number” of pictures with a right-wing extremist background via the WhatsApp group of his platoon in 2014. A KSK sergeant major is said to have attached the black-white-red Reich flag next to the federal flag during training in the USA in 2015, supported this or did nothing about it.
The federal and state interior ministers presented a model decree in June of this year to take action against the public showing of imperial and war flags from the imperial and Nazi era. In the opinion of the interior ministers, the flags are increasingly used by right-wing extremist groups as a symbol and substitute for the banned swastika flag.