Et was an exchange of words with consequences that took place in the Thuringian state parliament in Erfurt in mid-July. Now the public prosecutor’s office in Erfurt has the waiver of immunity on charges of insult Bodo Ramelow applied for at the Thuringian state parliament. Previously, the AfD MP Stefan Möller had filed a criminal complaint against the Prime Minister and politician of the left. In a heated debate about the future storage and access to the scientific research of the files of the right-wing extremist group “National Socialist Underground” (NSU), which came from Thuringia and murdered ten people, in which there was also a possible observation of the AfD by the constitution protection went, Möller had again accused the left of “links to the violent left-wing extremist milieu” and alluded to Ramelow’s earlier observation by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
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Stefan Locke
Correspondent for Saxony and Thuringia based in Dresden.
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Ramelow, from the NSU perpetrators Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt had been personally threatened, had then lost his composure and showed Möller from the government bank the middle finger and called him a “disgusting bastard”. Shortly afterwards, Ramelow repeated his words in front of the cameras outside the plenary chamber and confirmed that although they were true in terms of content, he should not have expressed them in parliament, since something like that was not supposed to be there. Ramelow told the FAZ on Wednesday that this was “behavior that was not excusable” and an “unacceptable choice of words”. Although he was particularly sensitive to this issue. “But it would not have belonged in this place of the Prime Minister, regardless of what was going on inside me.”