Hesse's Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) and Justice Minister Eva Kühne-Hörmann (CDU) should provide information about when they learned that a twenty-year-old suspected of terrorism was on a CDU list for the local elections in March this year. The left parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament called for this at the weekend, referring to the reporting of the Hessian broadcasting company. Accordingly, the suspect from Spangenberg in the north of Hesse in the Schwalm-Eder district was on the CDU's list for both the city council and the election of a local advisory council.
The young man was arrested in September on suspicion of terrorism after explosives and a racist document were allegedly found on him. According to Hessischer Rundfunk, the man has been in custody since September. According to the public prosecutor's office, around 600 small explosive devices and booby traps were found during the raid, as well as a document in which the carpenter's apprentice spoke out against the Federal Republic of Germany and called for a "race war".
The CDU-Stadtverband Spangenberg was “shocked and appalled by the attempt to infiltrate an apparently right-wing extremist young fellow citizen of our city” on its website.
City association chairman Jörg Lange continues: "We thank the security forces that this was discovered and detained in good time."
"Scandalous Hessian tradition"
According to Lange, the suspect was put on the list as a non-party candidate and thus a free candidate for local elections.
"His intentions were and are not known to us," continues the chairman, who also makes it clear: "We expressly distance ourselves from any form of extremism, racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia."
For Torsten Felstehausen, domestic political spokesman for the Left, there are still questions unanswered because the public was not informed after the arrest in September.
"Was the public not informed about the case because the accused was active for the CDU and the arrest took place shortly before the federal election?" Asked Felstehausen and added: "Because that would continue the scandalous Hessian tradition, cases of legal terror under to sweep the carpet if they seem uncomfortable for the CDU. "
According to Felstehausen, the suspect's candidacy became known due to the work of an anti-fascist group.
He also wants to know where the explosives found actually come from and whether the North Hessian accused is being accused of other criminal offenses.