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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.
At first it was unclear whether the committee was also able to work because the left-wing deputy Katharina König-Preuss failed to vote for the chairmanship of the committee.
It received 36 of 80 votes, 43 against and one abstention.
She missed the required majority.
According to the left-wing parliamentary group leader Steffen Dittes, only 36 members of the Red-Red-Green were present on Friday.
“By not electing a chairman, the state parliament prevented the state parliament from being constituted and from being able to begin its work.
That's the real scandal, ”said Dittes.
Other MPs questioned whether the committee was actually incapable of working as a deputy had been elected.
The MPs elected CDU domestic politician Raymond Walk as deputy chairman of the committee of inquiry.
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According to the state parliament administration, there is no established parliamentary practice in the event of a non-election of a chairman.
Clarification is in the hands of the parliamentary groups.
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”.
According to this, an undercover agent had succeeded in infiltrating Italian Mafia groups.
Nevertheless, the investigations were then stopped against the will of the police officers involved in the operation.
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The committee of inquiry is now supposed to clarify, among other things, why the proceedings, which had been conducted under the name “Fido” until 2006, were suspended on suspicion of the formation of a criminal organization, drug trafficking and money laundering. In addition, it should be examined whether there were indications of possible links
between the accused and politics, administration or the judiciary
in this process
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The Green 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."
In the application from Red-Red-Green, the state government is requested to provide the relevant files and documents in connection with the "Fido" investigations.
It should also suspend any planned deletions or data or files.
The SPD MP Dorothea Marx said that a number of files were only available because there had been a comprehensive deletion moratorium within the framework of the NSU investigative committees.
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According to the CDU internal politician Raymond Walk, organized crime in Thuringia has gained a foothold since the 1990s at the latest.
He warned that people would lose confidence in politics if they got the impression that the state no longer had the reins of action in its hands.
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