Neighbors find secret documents in German chancellor's trash
July 25, 2022, 11:11 am

Neighbors find secret documents in German chancellor's trash

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with Prime Minister of the Saarland (Photo: Scholz's official Twitter page)

A report by German news outlet Der Spiegel reported, Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his wife Britta Ernst threw away confidential government documents in their household garbage.

The report said, the documents, some clearly marked “classified information – for official use only,” were found by neighbors in garbage bins outside the chancellor’s apartment in Potsdam.

There were also documents from last month’s G7 summit in Bavaria, including profiles of the bloc’s leaders and their partners and spouses.

They were apparently thrown out by Ernst, who is also the education minister for the state of Brandenburg, the report said.

It is against official rules for classified documents to be disposed of in such a manner, with the proper way being destroying them in a way that leaves their content indecipherable.

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Olaf Scholz is a German politician who has served as the chancellor of Germany since 8 December 2021.

A member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), he previously served as Vice Chancellor under Angela Merkel and as Federal Minister of Finance from 2018 to 2021.

He was also First Mayor of Hamburg from 2011 to 2018 and deputy leader of the SPD from 2009 to 2019.

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