Terry Reintke found clear words in June last year: “So far, the European Parliament has not lived up to its responsibility to protect its employees,” said the co-chair of the Green group when the clear majority of MPs called for tougher measures against sexual harassment. Reintke wrote the report. “Victims of sexual assault still remain silent out of fear of not being taken seriously and left alone, and because they fear that perpetrators will go unpunished.” This is how she summarized the situation.
This got to the heart of the problem – but in a way that was only known to a handful of people in the group at the time. There was a suspected case among the Greens themselves. The “Stern” reported about it on Friday. According to this, “more than a dozen employees and assistants” had confided in the magazine and incriminated a member of parliament: Malte Gallée, at 30 the youngest member of the parliamentary group, a member of parliament from Bavaria, who replaced Sven Giegold in the new federal government at the end of 2021 entered.
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