German defence ministry investigating employee over suspected far-right links

FILE PHOTO: The main entrance of the German Defence Ministry is pictured in Berlin, Germany, March 1, 2018. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's defence ministry is investigating an employee over suspected far-right links, a spokesman said on Wednesday, following a report in Spiegel magazine that the military intelligence service had warned it about one of its workers.

"We are talking about a suspected case of far-right extremism. The person is a civilian employee," a spokesman for the defence ministry told reporters in Berlin.