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The Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Manuela Schwesig (SPD), has asked the Interior Minister, Lorenz Caffier (CDU), to clarify doubts about the purchase of arms. “The prime minister has asked the interior minister to clarify all the issues, to deal with the matter and to explain it in parliament and in public,” the State Chancellery said. Consequently, Schwesig had a conversation with Caffier on Saturday.
The background for this is that the Minister of the Interior initially responded evasively to a question from a journalist about whether privately, as a hunter, he had bought a gun from or through a former member of a right-wing extremist group, or had completed shooting training with him.
On Friday, Caffier had admitted the purchase. “Yes, I have. A pistol. In early 2018, on the legal basis and at a time when the man was not yet under suspicion and was a reliable training partner for the police at home and abroad.” said the CDU politician. “Mirror”. No one suspected possible contacts between the man and the right-wing extremists.
In early 2018, the authorities and Caffier had no suspicions about the company. The man is still an officially licensed arms dealer. Just use the weapon to hunt, a pistol is part of the normal equipment there.
Caffier assured the prime minister of this justification in an interview, the state chancellery said. The defense of democracy and freedom and the fight against right-wing extremism are central concerns of the state government. There should be no question about it.
