After the raid in the “Reichsbürger” milieu, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced stricter gun laws. However, the Ministry of Justice is rather skeptical about the plan. Instead, the law should be better enforced, Justice Minister Marco Buschmann demands.
Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann spoke out against the tightening of gun laws announced by Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser after the raid on the “Reichsbürger” milieu. “We have strict gun laws in Germany,” said the FDP politician to the editorial network Germany. “But even the strictest gun laws don’t really help when people get guns illegally. We need to enforce our existing laws better.”
However, Buschmann supports the Interior Minister’s plan to remove civil servants more easily from the public service if they behave in an anti-constitutional manner – especially if the civil servants have access to weapons remove public service,” he said. “As a result, they no longer have access to weapons. That’s an important point.”
The traffic light parties had already agreed on this project in the coalition agreement. You will “find a reasonable solution”. At the same time, Buschmann emphasized that removal from public service should only happen “in exceptional cases, when it is clear that someone does not stand on the ground of the free-democratic basic order and is pursuing extremist tendencies”. Even if things have to be done quickly in case of doubt, “effective legal protection and the right to be heard by the person concerned remain indispensable”.
Last Wednesday, the federal prosecutor’s office had 25 suspected “Reich citizens” arrested. She accuses 22 of them of being a member of a terrorist organization that wanted to overthrow the political system. According to reports, the conspirators wanted to form 286 “homeland security companies” that would also carry out arrests and executions after a coup. Overall, the raid “showed that our security authorities work very well and effectively,” said the justice minister.
In view of the alleged Reichsbürger conspiracy, Bundestag Vice President Katrin Göring-Eckardt is calling for better protection of Parliament from possible attacks. “The security concept of the German Bundestag is not sufficient,” she told the newspapers of the Funke media group. “We have to make sure that nobody – neither MPs nor employees – can carry weapons into parliament,” Göring-Eckardt demanded. “We have to talk about the question of who gets access and how, and above all uncontrolled, in the worst case even with weapons, can enter the building.”
“The dangers posed by armed Reich citizens and other right-wing extremists are real,” emphasized Goering-Eckardt. “This also affects our parliament in a very concrete way.” The Greens politician accused the AfD, which is represented in the Bundestag, of being “the parliamentary arm of this ideology”.
