The lower chamber of the legislative body is known as the House of Representatives. - Right-wing extremist assault case: U Committee initiates lawsuit against the court.
A trial against two individuals linked to the far-right circles is scheduled to start in autumn, and the court is reluctant to release case files from the cops and prosecutors for now. In 2022 and 2023, these men were acquitted as there wasn't sufficient evidence tying them to arson attacks on cars driven by people fighting right-wing extremism. They did receive convictions for destructing property.
Franco, who leads the parliamentary committee, insists that they won't interfere in the police and prosecutors' investigations against the arson suspects. The committee's objective is to examine the actions of the police and public prosecutors, and that's part of the parliament's job. However, the court is uncooperative about discussing this matter.
Franco also condemns the lack of communication from the Federal Ministry of the Interior. "It's incomprehensible that the ministry isn't responding to our inquiries. This show of negligence towards the work of a state parliamentary committee is shocking." Potentially, legal action might be needed.
The parliamentary committee has been probing since 2022 whether the police and prosecution made blunders in their investigations into the string of right-wing extremist arson attacks and defamation in Neukölln between 2012 and 2019. The cops recorded over 70 instances of these incidents since 2013 in Neukölln. The probe took years to complete, and only in the summer of 2021, the General Public Prosecutor's Office brought charges.
