Overview
- Ferat Koçak has relinquished his seat on the Bundestag interior committee after reports that he maintained contacts with members of the Rammo family.
- Koçak told reporters he exchanged a video with Firas Rammo and accepted a phone donated by Issa Rammo for Antifa youth, and he called the contacts a mistake.
- Issa Rammo told Die Welt that Koçak is a ‘serious and polite’ person and defended him publicly while saying he voted for Die Linke and rejects antisemitism and terror.
- Rammo was photographed at the Linke election party in Neukölln with Ibrahim Ibrahim, a figure described in reporting as a leading supporter of the PFLP in Germany, and several family members have prior convictions for violent crimes.
- Rammo also said he plans to enter politics and made attention-grabbing local promises such as clearing Görlitzer Park with ‘300 brooms’, a claim that has intensified media scrutiny and questions about vetting and local security oversight.