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Rostock (dpa / mv) - The Rostock public prosecutor's office has started investigations against the arms dealer from whom the former Interior Minister Lorenz Caffier (CDU) bought a pistol as a private person.
It is about the suspicion that the dealer has violated the War Weapons Control Act, said a spokesman for the prosecutor on Friday on request.
According to the information, two proceedings are pending.
The “Schweriner Volkszeitung” had previously reported on it.
According to the spokesman, another case has been handed over to the Schwerin public prosecutor's office.
Caffier resigned as Minister of the Interior after the arms purchase became known last November.
In January 2018, the then minister, who is also a hunter, bought a pistol from the arms dealer.
According to Caffier's account, the State Criminal Police Office only received information about right-wing extremist ideas on the part of the arms dealer and firing range operator in May 2019 - more than a year after the weapons were purchased.
However, the man's name had already been mentioned in secret service circles in 2017 in connection with the prepper group “Nordkreuz”.
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210507-99-511872 / 3
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Report of the "Schweriner Volkszeitung"