Corona sequences: Mask allegations: Greens and leftists attack Spahn

Before the appearance of special investigator Margaretha Sudhof in the Bundestag, the criticism of the approach of ex-health minister Jens Spahn becomes Lauter in the procurement of Corona masks. Sudhof’s report is no longer only known in partly blackened form, several media also report on the unwitted version. On this basis, the Green Health expert Janosch Dahmen raises serious accusations against today’s Union faction leader Spahn and Federal Minister of Health Nina Warken (CDU).

The unsuccessful report shows that Warken “has targeted blackening in several places – with the obvious goal of disguising the responsibility of Jens Spahn and other members of the Union, who have made the state and taxpayers prey in the pandemic,” said Dahmen.

Spahn himself reacted indignantly in the ZDF: “Such a whimpering, such constructions that the Greens do straight – so far I only know such methods from the AfD.” It is “malignant assumptions”.

Reports ensure vertebrae

Several media had previously reported on details of the unwooded special report, including the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, NDR and WDR, the “Spiegel” and the “Bild” newspaper. Passages showed how Spahn had personally involved in procurement decisions and how he was warned of risks, wrote the “Süddeutsche”.

Spahn said: “Did we make mistakes? Yes, but we acted to the best of our knowledge and belief.” He emphasized that he himself had no negotiations for the procurement of mask at all. “The specialist department did that, that’s what law firms did.” The special report is “nothing new”, said the CDU politician on ZDF.

Dahmen, in turn, emphasized: “Pandemy was all over Europe. But all of them were missing. But nowhere else were billions of tax money in such an unprecedented extent – for masks that were never delivered in the overwhelming majority or were of such miserable quality that they had to be destroyed later.”

Dahmen: “Jens Spahn lied”

The Greens politician said: “The unveiling points black on white: Jens Spahn lies. Not even, not with good intentions, not only in details-but repeated, systematic and with the aim of protecting himself and networks in his environment.”

Sharp criticism also came from the left. The Union apparently uses all opportunities to cover Spahn’s personal entanglements, said Ates Gürpinar, spokesman for the Left Group. He said that the special investigator Sudhof and her report on the Ministry of Health (BMG) were discredited from the Union.

Gürpinar said: “A committee of inquiry is urgently needed, the more than questionable interference by Spahn, which the Union -led BMG preferred to hide, have to be enlightened and he himself is held responsible.”

Local risks in billions

At the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, protective FFP2 masks could not be obtained at all and then narrowly. The federal government still threatens the federal government out of billions of risks. The Bundestag’s budget committee wants to lead a “technical discussion” to her report on Tuesday with special investigator Sudhof.

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