Overview

• Lawmakers from the CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens and The Left supported the move, while the AfD abstained.
• Prosecutors in Gera are investigating Stephan Brandner over an alleged insult of a Spiegel journalist he reportedly called a “fascist.”
• Brandner denies wrongdoing and says he sees no illegality in his choice of words.
• Matthias Moosdorf is accused of giving the Hitler salute about two and a half years ago in a side room of the Reichstag building.
• The lifting of parliamentary immunity enables probes to proceed and does not imply guilt or predetermine outcomes.