Germany: Ex-spy chief arrested for espionage

nxobject

> The prosecutor's office did not say which foreign intelligence service was involved. Lovely. I'm guessing it's an ally.

kakacik

Looking at timespan, 1998-2005. Of course under Gerhard Schröder, who is by all accounts a traitor to his own country, openly conspiring with enemy power (russia). Schröder is getting elected in various russian companies as member of boards still to this day (read last one like 2-3 days ago). Question is, why is this tolerated and there is no international warrant for his arrest. If French can arrest their former PM (heck, italians tried the same), Germans should also accept their missteps and do the necessary correction of their course. I could go on in very similar vein with merkel, but she clearly still has a small army of uncritical followers who are completely oblivious to all the damage she has done to entire EU even here.

eqvinox

Die Zeit has to say: "Ermittlungsarbeiten im Block-Prozess hatten den Fall ins Rollen gebracht."[1] = "Investigatory work during the [Christina] Block case had triggered this." Now who's Christina Block? "Die 53 Jahre alte Hamburger Unternehmerin Christina Block ist angeklagt, nach einem langen Sorgerechtsstreit eine israelische Sicherheitsfirma damit beauftragt zu haben, ihren damals 10-jährigen Sohn und die damals 13 Jahre alte Tochter vom Wohnort des Vaters Stephan Hensel in Dänemark nach Deutschland zu entführen."[2] = "The 53 year old entrepreneur from Hamburg is indicted for, after a long fight over custody, having hired an Israeli security company to abduct her 10-year old son and 13-year old daughter, to bring them to Germany from their father's residence in Denmark." … So, that's exactly one very likely guess which [if any] foreign country was involved here. (Hint: it's not Denmark.) [Ed.: NB: there's no guarantee any foreign country is involved. AIUI misappropriating state secrets is espionage even if you just shove them up your attic.] ¹ https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2026-10/august-hanni... ² https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/block-prozess-in-hamb...

srameshc

I always liked and thought DW was one of the largest publishers in Germany but learned from a German friend that it was not a major public media organization and many don't know about it there.

478336632929

The spy agency that repeatesly failed to uncover jihadist plots and relied on foreign agencies to get anything done.

rurban

So what I heard is that a disgruntled ex-colleague raised the concern that his ex-boss contracted with a friendly intelligence service to analyze the current Russia situation. Which led to these documents being provided by the then boss to his ex-boss for his report. No idea if this was illegal at all. Certainly not espionage.