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The mask affair around North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Armin Laschet (59, CDU) is on the rise!
After the NRW-SPD accusations that Laschet had initiated multimillion dollar purchases of protective equipment from the noble manufacturer Van Laack through his son Johannes (31), the head of government reacted yesterday with emotion.
Laschet auf der Zinne: “The accusation of the SPD is really regrettable.” The “defamation” is “always part of the style” of the party. “The new quality is that it goes beyond me, towards my family, without any consideration. I firmly reject it. “
Some had apparently forgotten what the situation was like for the crown in March when the masks were ordered from the luxury company: “We spoke with sore hands on the phone, we pushed and begged.” Johannes Laschet explained on Instagram that he had “none”. Cent ”won in the“ Deal ”.
Klingbeil adds
Meanwhile, SPD general secretary Lars Klingbeil added, told BILD: “This club is not for a prime minister.” Klingbeil continues: “That is indecent. Mr. Laschet will have many uncomfortable questions to ask himself in the course of this disclosure. For example, the question of whether he actually passed on his son’s contacts to other colleagues in the CDU government in other countries and in the federal government. I sincerely hope that this acquisition matter does not extend its circles beyond NRW. ”
The fact is that the Van Laack masks (dark blue with the NRW logo) were ordered in two tranches of 1.25 million pieces for the NRW police. Costs: 2 million euros gross per batch. And the Ministry of Health also commissioned van Laack 10 million protective gowns for a total of 38.5 million euros.
Van Laack’s boss, Christian von Daniels (65), told BILD that the accusations were “lies”: “So far we have put around 120 million masks on the market. The authorities of all countries play a role of around 5%. There is hardly a high-level authority who has not obtained our masks. We make the best product at the lowest price in the shortest time possible. That is the reason why we receive the orders and nothing else. “
And also: “We don’t know if that was announced.” According to Daniels, the order came several weeks after an initial meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Health in North Rhine-Westphalia. “We had to make improvements in terms of quality, prices, things like that.”
Laschet’s son, Johannes, receives a monthly fee of 500 euros as a model and influencer.
