German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. File photoBERLIN, 22 Aug The Potsdam prosecutor's office will not initiate proceedings against German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his wife Britta Ernst because of secret documents that ended up in a dumpster, Bild newspaper writes, citing the prosecutor. “We refrained from opening an investigation because the documents published in the media do not contain information that threatens important public interests,” Wilfried Lehmann, senior prosecutor at the Potsdam prosecutor’s office, explained to the publication. In July, the German magazine Spiegel reported that Scholz and Ernst threw confidential papers into waste container from his private apartment in Potsdam. Among the papers was a secret document relating to the G7 summit in Elmau in Bavaria. Earlier, Spiegel also wrote that the German chancellor and his wife, the Minister of Education of the federal state of Brandenburg, have repeatedly thrown confidential documents into the trash, which their neighbors later found.
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