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Matthias Seeger Denied Accusations of Links with Belarusian Authorities

The president of the German federal police was scandalously dismissed last week.

The dismissed president of the German federal police, Matthias Seeger, has branded as outrageous the allegations that he had dubious links with authorities in Belarus.

According to Der Tagesspiegel, Mr. Seeger said that he had maintained official contacts with the Belarusian border security agency, which had been authorized by the German federal interior ministry. All contacts were suspended about two years ago as Belarus was “sliding more and more into a dictatorship.”

Mr. Seeger, 57, was sent into retirement last week after he had served in the position since March 2008. According to German media reports, his contacts with Belarusian officials may have been one of the reasons for his dismissal.

Mr. Seeger visited Belarus in 2009. German police officers stayed in Belarus later that year to share experience of maintaining the public peace during demonstrations and other ‘mass events’, and a group of Belarusian officers visited Germany to study the German police’s crowd control practices.

In December 2011, Gregor Gysi, the leader of the Die Linke (The Left) group in the Bundestag, made an inquiry with the federal government, asking whether the German police had really taught Belarus’ riot police to violently suppress pro-democracy protests.

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