Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - A post by the Hesse SPD on social media caused outrage on Friday. With a view to the state parliament's investigative committee into the murder of Kassel's district president Walter Lübcke, the SPD on Thursday distributed a black-and-white collage with photos of Hessian CDU politicians under the title "More than fifteen years of domestic political failure". Among other things, several members of the Bundestag of the Union expressed outrage. This is the "dirtiest election campaign that Democrats have ever conducted," wrote the federal executive board member of the CDU, Serap Güler.
In its post, the Hesse SPD asked "Could the murder of Dr. Walter Lübcke have been prevented? The responsible interior ministers Bouffier, Rhein and Beuth were obviously overwhelmed with the political leadership of the LfV." LfV stands for State Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The collage shows, among other things, the former Prime Minister of Hesse, Volker Bouffier, the incumbent Prime Minister, Boris Rhein, and Hesse's Minister of the Interior, Peter Beuth (all CDU).
The chairman of the Hessian CDU parliamentary group in the Lübcke investigation committee, Holger Bellino, called the social media post "tasteless and completely inappropriate".
Lübcke was shot dead by right-wing extremist Stephan Ernst on the night of June 2, 2019 on the terrace of his house in the Kassel district. The state parliament investigation committee was set up in 2020 to investigate the role of the Hessian security authorities in the murder case.
