Overview

• Deputies from the CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens and Left voted to remove protections, enabling criminal investigations.
• Prosecutors in Gera are probing Brandner over an alleged insult tied to a dispute with a Spiegel journalist.
• Moosdorf is accused of giving a Hitler salute in a Reichstag side room about two and a half years ago.
• Brandner has denied wrongdoing, saying his language was lawful, according to prior statements.
• Lifting parliamentary immunity allows inquiries to proceed but does not imply guilt or predetermine legal outcomes.