In the spring of 2020 there will be an ammunition collection campaign at the KSK site in Calw. Charges have now been brought against the former commander of the association.
After the ammunition affair at the Special Forces Command (KSK), the Tübingen public prosecutor’s office brought charges against the former KSK commander, Brigadier General Markus Kreitmayr.
The authority accuses him of failure to participate in criminal proceedings (paragraph 40 of the Military Criminal Law), said the first public prosecutor Nicolaus Wegele on Friday. This is comparable to the criminal offense of obstruction of justice.
According to Wegele, the background is that during the annual ammunition inventory for 2019, significant shortages were discovered in the KSK ammunition storage facility in Calw. The value of the missing ammunition was around 28,000 euros. The inventory report was known to the brigadier general, said Wegele. Kreitmayr then decided that the soldiers could return ammunition anonymously and with impunity. More ammunition had been handed over than the shortage showed. The core of the accusation is that the KSK commander at the time should have at least expected that some of the ammunition had been stolen. The anonymous return of the ammunition in spring 2020 made it impossible to prosecute these crimes, said Wegele.
In a statement by the lawyers Bernd Müssig and Christian Mensching, it was said that the allegations made against Kreitmayr in the indictment were actually and legally unfounded. “In any case, the priority collection of ammunition parts and ammunition in the association followed the prioritization from the point of view of the emergency; a reported shortage had to be clarified and ammunition prevented from possibly falling into the wrong hands,” it said. It was never about a cover-up of crimes. Kreitmayr had no indications of criminal offenses in the association. Rather, there were only indications of accounting, documentation and possibly also storage errors that had accumulated in the association for some time and had to be clarified and remedied. “Of course, the facts should be reported comprehensively after actual clarification.”
Kreitmayr is presumed innocent until the proceedings have been finally concluded. The charges were brought before the Regional Court of Tübingen.
Source: Stern
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