A German politician who killed himself on the weekend his Pirate party was voted out of Berlin’s state parliament left a note confessing to the murder of a younger man, the public prosecutor has said. According to the public prosecutor, Claus-Brunner killed the younger man last Thursday – not at his own apartment, but at the victim’s flat in Wedding, in north-west Berlin. Before his own death, Claus-Brunner allegedly posted a package to a party colleague containing personal items and a note in which he confessed to the murder. In 2012, he created a scandal in the Pirate party when he dismissed plans for a women’s quota as a “tit bonus”. Speaking to the Berlin parliament for the last time in late June, he said he expected his party would no longer be part of the parliament after the election.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2016 19:07 UTC