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Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann: “Revealing information from a secret meeting is a no-go”
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Secret details about the possible delivery of Taurus cruise missiles from a special meeting of the Defense Committee have become public.
Presumably someone present tipped her off to the media.
The committee chairwoman Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) therefore wants to involve the public prosecutor.
Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD) will be informed immediately, Strack-Zimmermann told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”.
»Revealing information from a secret meeting is a no-go.
We hope that we can identify the person in question and that they will then feel the consequences.
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The background is a report from the news portal “t-online”, which discusses the secret part of the meeting with Inspector General Carsten Breuer.
Accordingly, Breuer spoke last Monday about technical and operational procedures for targeting Taurus cruise missiles.
According to “t-online”, it was also about the consequences of a Taurus delivery for Germany’s security and particular risks.
Breuer apparently told deputies that using the Taurus was more complicated than many assumed.
Ukraine, which has been attacked by Russia, has been demanding German Taurus cruise missiles to defend itself for months.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) strictly rejects delivery of the Taurus system to Kiev because he fears that Germany could become a participant in the war.
However, there is disagreement about this within the traffic light coalition.
On Thursday, the Bundestag once again rejected a CDU/CSU application for a Taurus delivery.
However, Strack-Zimmermann and her party colleague Wolfgang Kubicki voted in favor, and a group of Green MPs also called for the weapon system to be delivered in a personal statement.
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