"Garbage can affair": The public prosecutor's office is not investigating Scholz

Potsdam - The Potsdam public prosecutor's office has decided not to initiate preliminary proceedings against Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and his wife Britta Ernst (SPD) because of the "garbage can affair". "We have refrained from starting investigations because the documents published in the media have no information that endangers important public interests," senior public prosecutor Wilfried Lehmann told the Bild newspaper.

The information in the documents received, among other things, an appointment calendar from Scholz's wife, the Brandenburg Minister of Education Britta Ernst (SPD). Among other things, there was a document on the G7 summit in the Chancellor's household waste, on which "brief profiles of the partners" of state leaders were noted. "Avoid the public" was written there, for example, about Maria Serenella Cappello, the wife of Italy's President Mario Draghi.

Scholz shouldn't have taken the papers home with him
The briefing for Britta Ernst was actually confidential and was classified by the Foreign Office as "classified information - for official use only". The Chancellor and his wife should not have taken the paper home with them and should not have thrown it in the private waste. According to federal administrative regulations, confidential documents must be disposed of in such a way "that the content is neither recognizable nor can it be made recognizable." However, the documents had only been torn up once or twice, so that they remained easily legible.

The fact that this came out was due to a curious coincidence: in November last year, a fox, looking for food, scattered the transparent plastic bags with the chancellor's waste paper in front of the garbage room. Neighbors then became aware of the papers.

Source: Junge Freiheit