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Potsdam (AP) - A Brandenburg police officer who is said to have exchanged right-wing extremist content with a colleague from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on the phone is temporarily no longer allowed to do his job.
The members of the special units were temporarily banned from conducting official business on Wednesday, said the Brandenburg Police Headquarters.
Disciplinary proceedings had been initiated against the police officer.
For reasons of privacy protection, no further details were initially given.
"Possible violations of the official's duty of loyalty and his commitment to the free-democratic basic order as well as his general duty of conduct are the subject of disciplinary investigations," said the Presidium in Potsdam.
According to information from police circles, it should have been right-wing extremist statements.
Communication took place exclusively between the two officials and not in chat groups with third parties or networks, the presidium announced.
According to the police, the responsible public prosecutor in Brandenburg has denied criminal liability.
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According to the Presidium, the State Criminal Police Office of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania made the Brandenburg LKA aware of the police officer at the beginning of February.
After that, the "communication by mobile phone" between him and the police officer from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was uncovered between January 2017 and February 2019 in an investigation by the Rostock public prosecutor's office.
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