Patricia Schlesinger’s former RBB executive office was searched on Saturday Photo: dpa picture alliance
By Michael Sauerbier
The police and prosecutors searched the top floor of the scandal broadcaster RBB on Saturday. Target of the raid: documents of the fired director Patricia Schlesinger (61). The CDU wants to halve the salary of your successor.
At 9:30 a.m., the public prosecutor knocked on the RBB television center. With a search warrant from the Tiergarten district court in hand. Then the investigators went to the 13th floor.
“We searched the director’s area,” said senior public prosecutor Sebastian Büchner to the BZ, “this also involved Ms. Schlesinger’s private documents. We confiscated three boxes of papers. The evaluation will show where there may still be criminal acts.”
At the beginning of the investigation, the RBB had declared that it would cooperate with the investigators. But apparently the broadcaster had not yet handed over the documents from the executive floor to the investigators. The RBB also continues to block press questions about dubious consultant contracts and working lunches. Not a trace of transparency and enlightenment.
The Broadcasting Council wants to elect a transitional director on Wednesday. “Instead of almost 400,000 euros like Ms. Schlesinger, her successor should only earn 190,000 euros a year,” demands Brandenburg’s CDU parliamentary group leader Jan Redmann, “no more than the Prime Minister.”
With his Berlin colleague Kai Wegner, Redmann drew up an action plan that all CDU parliamentary group leaders approved yesterday.
The transmitter supervision should be strengthened and staffed with experts. Goal: “Restoring trust in public service broadcasting.”
