Yeah, I know. But I'm just curious whether the city prosecutor has gone off the reservation, or if Merkel's okay with this.
Look, I don´t know how it´s in the US, but I cannot imagine it to be any different from us: The judges - in fact, the entire judicative branch - is independant, so they´re only bound to the LAW. No Chancellor, President, Gouvernor, Mayor, Congress or whatever can tell them what to do. The (in this case: state) prosecutors are dependant to the state Minister of Justice, but it´s highly unusual that Ministers interfere.
In this case, a German citizen was kidnapped, and this crime shall be investigated and if necessary prosecuted. That´s why a judge has issued an arrest warrant on request of the prosecutors. Now tell me that you had not done the same if Mr. El-Kalid was a US citizen and the German intelligence had kidnapped him!