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Schwerin (dpa) - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Interior Minister Torsten Renz (CDU) has put the head of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Reinhard Müller, into temporary retirement.
With this, the minister drew the first personnel consequences from the agency's actions on Wednesday, including information about the Berlin Christmas market bomber Anis Amri.
Müller had admitted that an undercover agent's statement on the possible environment of the Islamist terrorist at the beginning of 2017 had not been immediately passed on to the responsible investigators in Berlin and the federal government.
The information was classified as not credible at the time, it was said to justify.
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Amri shot and killed a truck driver in Berlin on December 19, 2016 and then raced his vehicle across the Christmas market at the Gedächtniskirche, where he killed eleven people.
Former employees of the constitution protection in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania had testified in the Amri investigation committee of the Bundestag that superiors did not want to pass on information from an informant about possible helpers of Amri from the Berlin clan milieu to the investigating police officers.
The informant allegedly overheard in Berlin in February 2017 that Amri was said to have received support from a Berlin family with Arab roots in the preparation of the attack and his subsequent escape.
Federal Prosecutor General Peter Frank said he would have considered it right if the Federal Criminal Police Office and its authority had been informed immediately.
The information only arrived there in 2019 because an undercover agent had turned to the federal authorities himself.
The actions of the MV-Verfassungsschutz had met with sharp criticism in the Bundestag and also in the state parliament in Schwerin.
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