Elite German state police accused of funneling ammunition to 'Prepper' scene

Deutsche Welle ^ | 06.12.2019 | ipj/msh (AFP, dpa)

[Olog-hai]

Charges of breaching Germany’s War Weapons Control Act, its civil arms law and fraud had been laid against the four accused, said public prosecutors in Schwerin, the regional capital of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania (MV) state on Wednesday. All the officers worked for the state’s arm of the SEK.

Lorenz Caffier, Christian Democrat (CDU) interior minister in the state’s grand coalition cabinet headed by Social Democrat Manuela Schwesig, said he was “profoundly shocked and bewildered” by the turn of events and promised an “airtight” investigation.

Regional prosecutors, acting on findings of a 2017 probe by federal prosecutors, effected the arrests on Wednesday as well as searches of 14 premises [homes and offices] at five locations across MV — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s home state, where the far-right is active.

The four accused would probably appear before a custodial magistrate on Thursday, said a spokeswoman for Schwerin’s prosecutions office. …

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[dljordan]

Well that’s almost American of them.

[TLI]

Nordkurier, a newspaper in the region, said three of those arrested Wednesday were accused of starting to remove munitions from their workplace, the state's LKA criminal investigations offices in Schwerin, as long ago as 2012.

2012 to 2019?

All they got was 4?

Those were probably entrapments based on large sums of money for very small quantities.

Just my thoughts since absolutely no amounts of either the ammo or money are reported in the article.

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[OldNewYork]

“profoundly shocked and bewildered”, said with an intonation similar to the police chief’s in Casablanca?