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Berlin (AP) - Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is examining judicial disciplinary proceedings against Commander Markus Kreitmayr after the incidents in the Special Forces Command (KSK).
The CDU politician said on Wednesday in the Defense Committee of the Bundestag, as participants in the ongoing meeting of the German Press Agency said, she had to decide on the opening.
Like every other soldier in the Bundeswehr, Kreitmayr is entitled to a fair and transparent procedure.
In recent years, the KSK has been rocked by several scandals involving right-wing extremist incidents.
Kreitmayr took command in 2018 and is supposed to lead a reform process.
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The brigadier general is charged with the fact that his soldiers were able to throw hoarded or possibly stolen ammunition into boxes ("amnesty boxes") from March to May last year without any consequences.
The KSK commander stated that he independently ordered the ammunition collection on April 1, 2020 by verbal order, said Kramp-Karrenbauer on Wednesday.
Kramp-Karrenbauer said that the handling of ammunition and explosives in the past in the KSK was "completely unacceptable".
According to the information, she spoke of a culture of sloppiness, indiscipline and systematic disregard for rules.
The responsibilities and those responsible would have to be identified and prosecuted.
You currently have no evidence that an earlier information leak at the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) is related to the ammunition collection campaign.
A MAD lieutenant colonel shared details of an already completed raid against a KSK soldier in Saxony with soldiers from the command last year.
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