Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - Opinions in the Hessian state parliament on the publication of secret files on the NSU by the Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution differ widely. Representatives of the opposition factions of the SPD and Left accused the state government of a lack of transparency on Wednesday in Wiesbaden and called for a review of non-disclosure periods. In his opinion, at least parts of the NSU files could be published, said SPD parliamentary group leader Günter Rudolph.
The parliamentary manager of the CDU parliamentary group, Holger Bellino, however, saw legal and ethical limits being exceeded. The publication could endanger whistleblowers, he warned.
The papers were published by Jan Böhmermann on the "Ask the State" platform and the "ZDF Magazin Royale" and posted on the Internet. It's good that "the publication of the NSU files means that everyone can now read these reports," said the left-wing faction's domestic policy spokesman, Torsten Felstehausen. "Abnormalities of this magnitude must be able to be debated publicly and do not belong in locked filing cabinets."
The domestic policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Stefan Müller, said: "The complete publication of the files harms the rule of law, because it cannot be ruled out that extremists can draw conclusions about the working methods and informants of the security authorities by linking information." Transparency is important, but not at the price of endangering the welfare of the state, said Müller.
