The Minister of Defence and the public prosecutor general (Generalstaatsanwalt) have commented on the recent article by the investigative news magazine Die Lupe (see here):
GSA: “We had the suspicion that the editors of Die Lupe, by publishing the article “Secret of a decade” had committed treason (ea: Landesverrat, ed.) To verify, we asked the Defence Ministry for a report. After the document reached us this morning, we had made the following decision: On behalf of the state, a complaint against the editorial staff of Die Lupe has been filed.
We have a search warrant for the Die Lupe Headquarter office, as well as an arrest warrant against Anton Weier. A search was conducted starting earlier this morning. For further information please contact my office or the police chief.”
MoD:
“Like the GSA said, we have written a report on Die Lupe’s article and had come to the conclusion that the facts in their article were obtained through material with the highest confidentiality category. It was therefore our conclusion that Die Lupe has committed treason. At this point I will not comment on any questions regarding the article. Thank you for your time.”