The report, the inspector General's wrath on Tuesday the Minister has presented, consists of 60 individual measures, which deal with the management and control of the KSK, as well as with the political character Of education and training. In a Preface to the Parliamentary state Secretary Peter Tauber (CDU) admits to the Parliament a severe problem at all levels in the management of the commands and in the evaluation of extremist tendencies. Parts of the Association would, so also the inspector-General Eberhard anger, and the "working group KSK", "over the years independent of writing".
Peter Carstens
Political correspondent in Berlin
F. A. Z.A key event, the adoption of a chief of the 2. Company with a pig's head throwing, right-wing chants and Hitler salutes in April 2017, was internal, and of the political and military leadership at the time, Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) rather than under the influence of alcohol Taste dismissed downplayed. It is the civil investigations of a public Prosecutor's office was due to that the operation was sanctioned. Within the SFC, in particular, the company met with the investigator at the time on tight agreed statements or Silence. Tauber writes about the Celebration at the end of the company boss, a young woman and later a witness is said to have been handed over for immediate sexual intercourse as a "gift", there are right-extremist behavior had become "obvious". It'll be covered "up, misplaced Esprit de corps through Individual". The resolution of the 2. The company is therefore also a late consequence of the attempt to evade collective of disciplinary and legal processing of the events.
in General, for the special forces command Tauber comes to the judgment: "The supervision at all levels above the company has not recognized in this Segment over a longer period of time is an alarming development or underestimated." Consequently, the SFC "can not remain in its present Constitution are". The Ministry of defence also takes the position to the partially glaring failure of the Military counter-intelligence service (MAD). The service way, so Tauber, "not acceptable defects of professionalism" on. The Minister instructed the President of the MAD, therefore, "to draw up, at the end of August a package of measures, with the Ministry to coordinate and together with a binding implementation plan". The extremism in the defence should be significantly strengthened, professionalized, and faster. The staff in the MAD, it is checked from now on in turn to all the contacts in the KSK to go. It needs the active support of the democratic order, as well as professional distance from members of the armed forces. Compromises not be "possible", the Ministry said.
Date Of Update: 01 July 2020, 12:20
