Overview

• Gunnar Schellenberger accused the Magdeburg public prosecutor’s office of breaching Article 59 and trampling the Landtag’s dignity by failing to obtain prior consent for the early July search.
• He questioned the late notice, the scale of police presence and the use of armed officers during the raid in the parliamentary chamber.
• In a formal letter to Generalstaatsanwältin Heike Geyer, Schellenberger outlined requirements for future investigations including preapproval and operational limits.
• The CDU parliamentary group has suspended disputed function allowance payments as the broader probe into supplemental payments for CDU, SPD and AfD MPs continues.
• Investigations into alleged unlawful function allowances are ongoing while calls grow for clear procedural safeguards governing state parliamentary inquiries.