DAccording to a report by Hessischer Rundfunk, the Frankfurt public prosecutor’s office has brought charges against Frankfurt’s Lord Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD) in connection with the AWO affair. The authority could no longer be reached on Monday evening. Feldmann himself said through his spokesman that he was not yet aware of any indictment. “The press obviously knows more than I do,” said the mayor. “If it’s true, I hereby declare the following: Finally – a procedure gives me the opportunity to clear up the excessive suspicions.
What he has heard from the public prosecutor’s office so far is “on shaky ground,” Feldmann continued. The investigations had “revealed nothing but one-sided conjectures”. He is all the more pleased that “soon a neutral body will finally decide on the completely unfounded allegations”. He will not hide and looks at everything “extremely relaxed”, said the mayor.
The public prosecutor’s office has been investigating for about a year on suspicion of taking advantage of Feldmann. The question is whether he used his influence in 2015 to get his partner at the time and later wife Zübeyde Feldmann a job as manager of an AWO day-care center, including a company car and with a salary that was well above the tariff. In mid-February, the authority had announced on request that the investigation was ongoing.