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11.06.2022

The quiet return of the former MP, Mario Lehmann, to the police force of Saxony-Anhalt

 
 
Vice Chair Mario Lehmann (AfD,Saxony-Anhalt) with Rammstein shirt at Saxony-Anhalt state parliamentary session on 24 October 2018. Foto: IMAGO / Christian Schroedter

Vice Chair Mario Lehmann (AfD,Saxony-Anhalt) with Rammstein shirt at Saxony-Anhalt state parliamentary session on 24 October 2018. Foto: IMAGO / Christian Schroedter

 

 

 

Commenting in Berlin on the return of the former AfD politician and regional state MP to the police service in Saxony-Anhalt, Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee said:

"A few months ago, when the widely known right-wing extremist AfD politician expressed his intent to return to his role as judge in the judicial service of the state of Saxony, the responsible minister of justice carried out a publicly open and transparent examination of the possibilities to prevent Maier’s return to public judicial office. And in view of his many right-wing diatribes and hate outbursts, she also initiated the investigation of possible disciplinary consequences. Both the minister and many other citizens found it simply impossible to imagine that a self-declared right-wing extremist could again be allowed to pronounce verdicts ‘in the name of the People’.

However, in Saxony-Anhalt, the responsible Ministry of the Interior has opted for a different route in the case of the former AfD politician Mario Lehmann. On numerous occasions he has made himself conspicuous in the state parliament in Magdeburg with his abusive, xenophobic and right-wing extremist comments. But the minister, Tamara Zieschang, excluded the public when she made the quiet decision on Lehmann’s request to return to the police service of the state that he so openly despises, and hid him away in the police force’s uniform store. The minister circumvented any form of public or political debate on whether a person who is well-known as someone filled with prejudices and right-wing extremist aggression should in fact be entitled to return to one of the most sensitive areas of state action. Within the police force, Lehmann continues to enjoy every possibility of freely spreading his toxic views among colleagues. It is now more than a week since this issue was openly addressed and the behaviour of the ministry was questioned. It is time for the minister to make a public response!"