Two days after the start of the investigation against Baden-Württemberg's Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) for passing on a lawyer's letter to the press, the public prosecutor's office searched the ministry and secured documents.
The prosecution announced on Friday evening that the Stuttgart public prosecutor's office had carried out searches and secured evidence based on a search warrant from the Stuttgart district court in the Ministry of the Interior.
It is about the suspicion of prohibited communications about court hearings.
The ministry said it had given the prosecutor "all information fully and promptly."
They rely on “maximum cooperation with the public prosecutor’s office”.
The background to the allegations against the interior minister are investigations by the public prosecutor against a leading police officer on suspicion of sexual harassment.
The man is said to have harassed a chief inspector in a video chat with his ideas about sexual practices.
Because Strobl passed on a letter from the accused officer's lawyer to a journalist, he is now also under investigation.
The public prosecutor's office said on Wednesday evening that the investigation was directed against the journalist and the minister.
The reporter is suspected of having quoted official documents from the ongoing proceedings against the police officer.
Strobl, in turn, is said to have instigated him to do so.