Largest ammunition theft for 30 years
From the paratrooper barracks in Seedorf 32,981 cartridges were stolen.A secret report reveals now: The Bundeswehr ignored safety recommendations of the MAD – simply for cost reasons. From Thorsten Jungholt
The deed was done in the early morning hours of 7 February. Sometime between 4.30 und 7 clock clock stole Unknown 32,981 cartridges of various calibers from the Paratrooper barracks in Lower Saxony Seedorf.Appreciated are the approximately 40 cases of ammunition, weighing up to 600 kilograms. In the Berlin Defence Ministry declares an ammunition theft of this magnitude had not occurred in the army for 30 years.
An unfortunate individual case, then? Not at all. The embarrassing mishap is rather a renewed proof of serious safety deficiencies in the German barracks . The armed forces will in future take greater responsibility in the world according to the will of the government, are not even able to protect their own properties reliably. Between 2003 and 2013 poorly guarded military bases to the scene of all possible offenses were: Knowledgeable files are 524 burglaries, 294 property damage, 55 arsons and 460 thefts, including 14 Munitions and 30 stolen firearms.
Bundeswehr barracks can be protected with cheap guards
Ironically, the Bundeswehr saves on safety. You can protect Billigstpreisen their barracks by private security guards. This poses risks – and caused millions in damages.
By Thorsten and Martin LutzJungholt
Photo: picture-alliance / ZBBurnt vehicles facing pass Bundeswehr members: 42 vehicles had been set on fire in an attack on the officer’s high school
Over-protection, this word runs like a red thread through the political career of Ursula von der Leyen . Wherever does the 55-year-old CDU politician, she takes care of “the people”. In family ministry they invented the parental allowance, the Ministry of Labour the power of life and pension during the coalition negotiations, they put the minimum wage to the factory.
Now von der Leyen, Minister of Defence. Now they sheltered soldiers. , the Bundeswehr is the service provider for national security, the soldiers serving Germany, in extreme cases, risking their lives. The first message of the Minister fell accordingly caring: “The most important thing is man, the most important thing is not the cost.”
However, the Bundeswehr is also an authority which buys services themselves. And as soon as the armed forces have emerged as a contracting authority, they have to care nothing more in mind. Then a completely different motto is: the most important is the cost, not man.
Offers “the lowest price” demanded
Every third German almost never goes to the hairdresser
Unkempt German? Every third person is, according to industry data less than once per year to the hairdresser. However, the sales increase – because who can make the hair, it’s often a lot of money.
Photo: Getty ImagesMore than every third German is a hairdresser muffle. On average, the Germans are good but every two months to the hairdresser
More than every third German is a hairdresser and muffle is less than once a year for a haircut. Nevertheless, the industry can look forward to billions of dollars.
Good six billion Euros, the approximately 80,000 German hairdressers last year with a wash, cut, blow dry, coloring and perms and other services related to beauty.
