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Leipzig (dpa / sn) - More than 50,000 ammunition items have been given to elite soldiers from the Special Forces Command (KSK) that they had previously hoarded or possibly stolen.
There is no information where these come from, said a lieutenant colonel of the KSK on Friday in front of the Leipzig regional court.
There, a KSK soldier has to answer for violations of the War Weapons Control Act, the Weapons Act and the Explosives Act.
Investigators discovered two kilograms of professional explosives and several thousand pieces of rifle and pistol ammunition on his property in northern Saxony last May.
The case is now also politically explosive after it became known that the elite soldiers were able to hoard or possibly also hand in stolen ammunition from March to May of last year without the threat of consequences.
Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) is examining judicial disciplinary proceedings against the commander because of the irregularities in the handling of ammunition at the KSK.
He had independently ordered the ammunition collection campaign on April 1, 2020 by verbal order.
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The lieutenant colonel, who has been responsible for ammunition management at the KSK since 2019, explained that the cartridges dispensed had not previously appeared as a difference at the KSK and therefore had not been missed.
A large proportion of the ammunition was old.
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