Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - The public prosecutor's office in Stuttgart wants to get to the bottom of new allegations against Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) in connection with the so-called letter affair. She informed the German Press Agency in Stuttgart on request. The opposition suspects Strobl of unsworn false testimony after his questioning in the investigative committee. According to the spokesman for the public prosecutor's office, no preliminary proceedings are pending in this connection. "However, we are monitoring the hearing of evidence by the investigative committee "IdP
The investigative committee turned to sexual harassment in state authorities, to promotion practices in the police and to the passing on of a lawyer's letter by Strobl. A police inspector who has since been suspended is said to have sexually harassed a police officer in Stuttgart a year ago. The public prosecutor's office in Stuttgart recently brought charges against him for sexual assault. Strobl had passed on a letter from the inspector's lawyer to a journalist - and was therefore also under pressure. However, the investigations against the minister were dropped against payment of a fine of 15,000 euros.
The recent allegations are about a possible agreement between Strobl and the journalist, a question of detail: According to the opposition, the statements of the two men in the committee of inquiry on the subject of source protection contradict each other. The journalist said that the minister had asked him to protect the source. Strobl himself claimed the opposite in his questioning in the committee, criticizes the SPD. The committee of inquiry will meet again on Monday.
