Cologne - spy-accusations, disciplinary and administrative penalties, crisis meetings, mutual recriminations and more abstruse - three weeks after the subway disaster, the nerves are involved in the blank.
It is not an easy path for Baudezernent Bernd Streitberger (CDU): Lord Mayor Fritz Schramma (CDU) has initiated disciplinary proceedings against him.
Explain at the council meeting, the top officials on Thursday for the first time publicly why he had concealed his knowledge of serious issues in the pit disaster. He even threatened after the defeat.
On OB Schramma new trouble comes: In judicial circles, it is assumed that the Prosecutor initiates an investigation on Thursday against him. Reason is "Schramma-Gate" (based on Nixon's Watergate).
He should have made in a closed emergency session tapes>, without which the participants knew it. This is contrary to Section 201 of the Penal Code. Who has not publicly spoken word is the unauthorized recording, can be punished with up to three years in prison. For officials like Schramma is as high as five.
The city, however, has a case against the illegal excavation of the well drillers Haymarket. The companies threaten to five-digit fines.
KVB manager Walter Reinarz (CDU) must fear the next Tuesday. Then the KVB board meet in a special session that will be voted in the well of his dismissal. KVB chief executive Juergen Fenske (SPD) must also ask embarrassing questions Thursday in City Council.
Strange asks questions after Schramma WHETHER EXPRESS information to the Environment Department: Whether too much for the drilled wells in the collapse-pit Waidmarkt has been closed down ...? Here lie under rubble and concrete. The nerves are - everywhere!
