is Still no decision on a Committee of inquiry into the circumstances of the dismissal of Hubertus Knabe, head of the Berlin-hohenschönhausen memorial site. One of the FDP parliamentary group introduced the application was postponed on Thursday. The FDP had requested the postponement, apparently against the Background that this would have the necessary Quorum of one-quarter of the 160 members in all likelihood missed. Reason for this is a decision of the CDU from Tuesday. The group announced after a Reportedly turbulent group meeting, to include a possible vote.
Opposition attacked Lederer
The postponement was preceded by an intense debate before. In the current hour, the Parliament dealt with the AfD request “cleansing in Hohenschönhausen educate – the investigation Committee”. A title that, among other things, Daniel Wesener, Parliamentary Secretary of the Green group, caused outrage. He accused the AfD is to operate the vilification of the victims of actual cleansing, and spoke of a specific “provocation”. Later, Left-culture Senator Klaus Lederer of the criticism and said: “I am appalled when I hear, in connection with the memorial site hohenschönhausen, the term cleansing. This is a disgrace and an unbearable transgression.“
While the speakers from the Opposition criticised in the debate, the Board of Trustees of the memorial belonging to Lederer and the Senate accused, in order to bring important issues to deal with boy unanswered, warned representatives of the coalition to responsibly deal with the sexual harassment affected women.
Whose interests should be protected instead of the granted cases to instrumentalize sexual harassment and politically, demanded the speakers of the SPD, Left and Greens unanimously. Lederer himself spoke of a perpetrator-victim-reversal, which was “unbearable”.
CDU provides its own application
mockery had to let the CDU parliamentary leader Burkard Dregger endure. The had rejected a few weeks ago, the establishment of a Committee of inquiry is clear. On Tuesday, he has referred to then, but after the group meeting under participation of the CDU-country Manager, Monika Grütters, the decision to apply for a Committee of inquiry as a “friendly solution” and the own u-turn to the outside defends.
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The role of Grütters, in the case of a boy within the CDU group of controversial, because it was in the course of the debate on the dismissal to the side of the Lederers. The in turn praised them in his speech before the plenary session, the same multiple also is an obvious jab in the direction of the CDU.
