[Domestic Policy] Preliminary investigation against ZPS is closed 2019-04-18

Nr. 22/2019

Erfurt, 08.04.2019

Preliminary investigation against ZPS is closed As a result of today's meeting of the management of the prosecutor Gera, the Attorney General's Office and the Thuringian Minister of Justice Dieter Lauinger (The Green-Party) there is agreement between all participants in the following points.
  • The preliminary investigation against Dr. Philipp Rauch because of formation of a criminal union (§ 129 StGB) u.a. is closed according to § 170 Abs. 2 StPO.
  • The investigating prosecutor is entrusted at his own request for the time being until final clarification of the media charges against him with other tasks in the prosecutor's office Greta. He is just released from his duties as spokesman for the prosecutor Gera.
"I warmly welcome the consistent legal opinion of the Procuratorate, Prosecutor General's Office and Ministry at today's meeting," says Justice Minister Dieter Lauinger. "So this process can finally be completed."

Attorney General Andreas Becker and the acting head of the public prosecutor Gera, chief prosecutor Steffen Flieger, supplement: "The decision to entrust the public prosecutor with other tasks until clarification of the allegations against him was made on the basis of welfare issues and on the proposal of the person concerned.

[1] Ermittlungsverfahren gegen ZPS wird eingestellt
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