#Germany: Update on #Hanning case. - An investigating judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe issued a pre-trial detention order against ex-#BND chief August Hanning. So, no bail for him. - Prosecutors accuse him of intelligence agent activity, treasonous spying, reconnoitering state secrets, and attempted treason. - His former office manager at the BND, Manfred D., was also placed in pre-trial detention on Tuesday for aiding and abetting attempted treason and treasonous spying. - The two worked side by side for more than two decades after meeting at the BND. D. later followed Hanning to the Interior Ministry. - @derspiegel reported that investigators were examining Hanning's contacts with an intelligence operative in #Azerbaijan and noted his documented role on the board of the German-Azerbaijani Forum. - Azerbaijan, as expected, has rejected reports linking it to the case, calling them disinformation. - The public denial came from a state media regulator, not from a minister or the presidency. A statement from the Foreign Ministry or the presidency would have been more notable; none has appeared. - Separately, APA, citing diplomatic sources, reported that Baku lodged a protest through special-services and diplomatic channels, addressed to the German Chancellor’s Office and the German Foreign Ministry. - For an espionage case in which Germany has not officially accused Azerbaijan, a regulator’s denial plus a private diplomatic protest is consistent with how Baku usually handles contested foreign reporting. It is not a sign that the government stayed silent. - Azerbaijani outlet AnewZ, citing informed sources, said German intelligence had told Baku the probe is not connected to Azerbaijan and centers on other countries, and that the classified material itself was not passed to third parties. German authorities have not publicly confirmed that account. - To make things more complicated, according to @Reuters, it is considered possible that the former BND chief may have passed confidential documents to countries such as #Israel. - Looks like much more is still to come. Buckle up. generalbundesanwalt.de/Share…

Pretty huge day in Germany 🇩🇪#alwaysbefaircharging Probably biggest court case in European roaming ever 🍿 🚨 #alwaysbefaircharging ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Wie weise doch die Wähler in MeckPom waren. Sie haben die CDU gleich aus dem Landtag geworfen. So können sie dort wenigstens die AfD nicht an die Macht bringen. Das ist die einzig sichere Brandmauer.

Der frühere BND-Chef sitzt in U-Haft. Der frühere Verfassungsschutzchef wird vom Verfassungsschutz beobachtet. Und jetzt kommt's: Beide haben nach ihrer Dienstzeit für dieselbe Schweizer Firma gearbeitet, von der niemand wusste, wem sie gehört. Maaßen hat das sogar brav beim Innenministerium angezeigt. Das Ministerium hat geprüft. Ergebnis: keine Bedenken. Das ist kein Witz, das ist eine Bundestagsdrucksache. Ein Ex-Kanzleramtschef und ein Ex-Ministerpräsident treffen sich in Baku mit Putins Leuten, der Kanzler weiß von nichts. Ein Altkanzler heuert nach seinen Ausflügen in die russische Energiewirtschaft bei einer russischen Supermarktkette an. Und statt der üblichen Empörung kommt diesmal, ... 🥁Trommelwirbel🥁 ... die übliche Empörung. Denn jedes Mal stellt sich heraus: Zuständig ist eh keiner. Wer ein Staatsamt verlässt, gibt den Dienstausweis ab und den Schlüssel. Sein Wissen nimmt er mit. Deutschland verlässt sich darauf, dass schon alle anständig bleiben. Vertrauen ist gut. Kontrolle ist nicht vorgesehen. Ich hab mir das Problem mal näher angeschaut.⬇️

270 cars across four German states. Exhaust pipes filled with construction foam. “Be greener” stickers slapped on the windows with Robert Habeck’s face. It looked like radical climate activism. Russia ran the operation. Three defendants confessed in Ulm. Two men, 18 and 22, one woman, 21. They moved to Germany from Bosnia, Serbia, and Romania. Moscow’s handlers paid them 100 euros per car to frame the Green Party and discredit climate policy before the Bundestag election. The court called them “disposable agents. ” Accurate. Now the sentence: • Two men: 3,000 euros each to the state treasury • Woman: 50 hours of community service • All three sentenced under juvenile law A foreign intelligence service coordinated 270 acts of sabotage at that price. No prison. No asset seizure. No investigation into the network that recruited them, moved them, and paid them. The message to Moscow is unambiguous: this is cheap. A few thousand euros in fines, some community service, and the operation still achieved its goal. The Greens were smeared, the public was confused, and the actual perpetrators walk away with a court record and a fine they can pay off with the next job. Russia needs the cost of sabotage to stay low enough that recruitment never stops, making court victories unnecessary. This verdict guarantees the next wave will be bigger. Ten times bigger is a conservative estimate. The German legal system just set the market rate for Russian hybrid warfare on German soil: 100 euros per car for the saboteur, 3,000 euros per saboteur for the state. Moscow will pay that all day.

Es gibt eine ganz einfache Faustformel: Nur Kinder, die man behalten will, sollte man impfen.