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Sebastian
Edathy
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Member of the Bundestag
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In office
1998 – 7 February 2014 |
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Personal details
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Born
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5 September 1969 (age 45) Hanover, Lower Saxony |
Nationality
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German |
Political party
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Social Democratic Party |
University of Hannover | |
Profession
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Sociologist |
Website
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www.edathy.de |
Sebastian
Edathy (German
pronunciation: [eˈdaːti],
born 5 September 1969 as Sebastian
Edathiparambil)
is a German politician.
He was a prominent member of the Social
Democratic Party and
became the chairman of a key committee in January 2012 at the
Parliament, which was investigating failures of police and
intelligence units in the serial murders of nine immigrants by the
far-right German terrorist
group ″National
Socialist Underground″
(NSU) from 2000-2007. The NSU-committee was led by Edathy and
questioned various officials from Germany’s Federal
Criminal Police Office during
years 2012-2013.
Early life[edit]
Edathy
was born in Hanover, Lower
Saxony,
the son of an immigrant from Kerala,
India and a German mother.[1] He
has studiedsociology and
published books on immigration and right-wing extremism. He has
been an SPD member
of the German parliament (Bundestag)
since 1998, representing Nienburg
II – Schaumburg.
He was a member of former German chancellor Gerhard
Schröder's red-green
coalition,
and a member of chancellor Angela
Merkel's grand
coalition.
He was the chairman of the BundestagCommittee
on Interior Affairs and was chairman of the German-Indian group of
members of parliament. He was reelected in thegeneral
elections in September 2009 and
again in the September
2013 general elections.
Resignation[edit]
Edathy
announced his resignation from parliament "for health reasons"
on February 7, 2014. Just two days after his resignation went
public, his home and offices were searched by authorities; media
outlets asserted that the searches were made on allegations of
possession of child
pornography.[2] 14
February 2014, Hans-Peter
Friedrich,
resigned from the ruling CDU–SPD
grand coalition government
reacting to imminent legal investigations into incidents during his
tenure as Federal
Minister of the Interior.
Friedrich was accused of betraying state
secrets about
legal investigations to SPD party heads during the coalition
negotiations after the federal elections in 2013 about information
showing Edathy's link to a globally-operating child pornography
syndicate and plans to take up an investigation against Edathy on
suspicion of possessing such material. "The SPD's top leaders,
who received the intelligence information from Friedrich, said they
have not given any tip-off to Edathy and they kept the information
secret."[3] They
are Economy Minister Sigmar
Gabriel,
who is also Merkel's deputy; Foreign Minister Frank-Walter
Steinmeier;
and the party's parliamentary leader, Thomas
Oppermann.
Edathy admitted to
having purchased some material by a Canadian firm, but he denied
the allegations of possessing child pornographic content, he
insisted the material he purchased was "unambiguously legal".
The
criminal investigation into child pornography turned into a crisis
for Germany's new grand coalition government and the Federal
Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt,
BKA) came under growing pressure for its role in the scandal after
reports revealed serious failures in the investigation of child
porn claims against Edathy. The BKA received documents from
Canadian authorities in October 2011 that involved possible child
porn claims about Edathy, but it only conveyed documents to the
state authorities in Lower Saxony two years after, in late 2013 for
further investigation.
Politicians
from the socialist The
Left, Green and
the conservative liberal Free
Democrat parties
all voiced disbelief that the BKA did not know. Die Linke
chief Bernd
Riexinger:
"It is absolutely not plausible that information about Edathy
did not reach the BKA". FDP vice chairman Wolfgang Kubicki
told that in the ranks of the BKA "either idiots were at work
or they were trying to avoid a scandal".[4] Even
the Christian
Social Union –
the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Merkel's dominant CDU –
expressed confusion, interior spokesman Stephan Mayer: “It is
inexplicable that the BKA did not notice that Edathy's name was on
the list of child porn buyers".[5]
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- Jump up^ Interview mit Sebastian Edathy (deutsch) at the Wayback Machine (archived January 26, 2007)
- Jump up^ "German politician Edathy rejects child porn allegation," Deutsche Welle (11-02-2014). Retrieved 14-02-2014.
- Jump up^ "German Hans-Peter Friedrich minister resigns over child pornography 'probe leak'". Daily News and Analysis. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
- Jump up^ "Grüne fordern Untersuchungsausschuss". Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.). Retrieved 6 March 2014.
External links[edit]
- "Indians in Germany" by Urmila Goel. Original version of contribution to Brij Lal (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora. Singapore: Edition Didier Millet, 2006.