Overview
- The state parliament in Hanover approved the removal on Tuesday, clearing the legal precondition for filing charges.
- The Göttingen prosecutor cites suspected offenses including Volksverhetzung, injurious insult, and endangering the dissemination of personal data.
- Investigators are examining posts from August 2024 to February 2025 on X that allegedly tied the rainbow flag to “pedophile lobby groups” and used derogatory language about queer people.
- Behrendt denies wrongdoing, calls the prospective indictment a “farce,” and says multiple probes will be consolidated into one case.
- SPD and Green legislators criticized the alleged statements, while the AfD caucus abstained in the immunity vote and cautioned against politically motivated proceedings.