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Erfurt (dpa / th) - Almost five months before the planned state election, the Thuringian parliament set up a new investigative committee that is supposed to shed light on Mafia investigations about twenty years ago.
A corresponding motion by the Left, SPD and Greens remained unchallenged in parliament, which means that the establishment is deemed to have been decided.
The committee is to deal with the background of the stopped investigation with the code name "Fido" against the Italian mafia in Thuringia.
The background is research by the MDR and the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”.
The Greens MP Madeleine Henfling said there were corruption allegations that had to be investigated.
The interior committee had reached its limits with questions to the state government.
The committee should now clarify whether the clues should be investigated further.
Several MPs from Red-Red-Green and the CDU argued that the committee also serves to secure files so that they are not lost.
Justice Minister Dirk Adams (Greens) said Parliament was acting completely freely.
"The state government is ready and prepared to answer your questions."
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