The Bundestag debated the AfD’s motion for a parliamentary investigative committee into the explosions at the Nord Stream pipelines on Thursday. According to Welt, the demand met with broad rejection from the CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens, and Left Party. The AfD had accused the federal government of failing to seriously investigate the destruction of the gas pipelines out of consideration for Ukraine.
AfD lawmaker Markus Frohnmaier said that nearly four years after the ‘largest attack on economic infrastructure in German history,’ there was still no conclusive investigation. The act was ‘highly likely committed on state orders, at least by Ukraine, perhaps also by other states.’ The federal government had never seriously demanded the extradition of suspects.
CDU lawmaker Hendrik Hoppenstedt countered that the AfD was trying to put Ukraine in a bad light. ‘You support President Putin’s narrative, you want to please him,’ Hoppenstedt said. The investigation should be left to the courts. SPD lawmaker Daniel Baldy pointed to the investigations by the Federal Prosecutor General against a Ukrainian suspect extradited from Italy — accusations of a cover-up were unfounded.
Greens lawmaker Robin Wagener accused the AfD of ‘kowtowing to Vladimir Putin.’ The party was ‘obsessed with oil and gas from Russia’ and wanted to ‘continue financing the Russian war with German money.’ Left Party lawmaker Ina Latendorf recalled a similar AfD motion from 2023 and said the election campaign in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was showing its face — the AfD was just looking for material for populist campaigning.
Source: www.welt.de
