Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann is sticking to his Minister of the Interior – even if he has to pay a fine of 15,000 euros because of an investigation. “The interior minister has informed me that the public prosecutor’s office will drop the case for a fee and he accepts that,” said the Greens politician on Friday morning. “From the public prosecutor’s point of view, there is no public interest in criminal prosecution. The matter has been clarified for me and we will continue to work well and trustingly with Thomas Strobl in the coalition.”
On Thursday evening, Strobl declared in the CDU parliamentary group that he wanted to pay a fine of 15,000 euros so that the proceedings against him would be discontinued. He had forwarded a letter from a lawyer to a journalist. After the parliamentary group, the party had also backed CDU country chief Thomas Strobl in the so-called letter affair.
