After the Magdeburg attack, Volker Wissing, the acting Federal Minister of Justice, questions the German security architecture.
“The Magdeburg perpetrator had been noticed multiple times because he threatened to commit crimes” Wissing told the Funke Media Group newspapers (Tuesday editions). There were also warnings about him. “According to what is known so far, his political statements, however, were so incoherent that no security agency’s schema fit him.” He thinks it possible to draw consequences for the security architecture from this. “And I think it necessary to lead a serious debate about it.”
At the same time, Wissing warned against hasty conclusions. “Not all facts are yet clear. There are still open questions. Marked political demands are currently out of place” said the politician, who had left the FDP after the collapse of the coalition and had taken over the Justice and Transport ministries. “Now is the time for empathy, for mourning – and for meticulous clarification of all details. The security authorities are investigating with high pressure. They have the full support of politics.