Bundestag raises the immunity of MPs from Left Party and AfD | EUROtoday

The Bundestag has lifted the immunity of two MPs. In the night, the parliament unanimously granted the “approval to carry out a criminal proceedings” in opposition to Gökay Akbulut from the left and the AfD parliamentarian Ingo Hahn.

Akbulut is investigated on suspicion of tried harmful bodily hurt as a result of it’s mentioned to have thrown a bottle in a practice from Heidelberg to Stuttgart within the path of a passenger. The MP had reported on her Instagram channel that she was thrown at a person with a beer bottle and was racially insulted and sexually harassed. The police contradicted this illustration.

Hahn’s immunity had already been lifted final yr when he was nonetheless sitting within the Bavarian state parliament. He is alleged to have launched and printed a video in social media, during which the speech by a free voter MP was illegally torn out of context and reduce along with different recordings.