DTN News - GERMAN DEFENSE NEWS: German Soldiers Bundeswehr Carry Torches During Farewell Ceremony For Former German President In Berlin
Source: DTN News - - This article compiled by Roger Smith (NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - March 9, 2012: Soldiers of the German armed forces Bundeswehr carry torches during a farewell ceremony for the former German President on March 8, 2012 at Bellevue Palace in Berlin.
Germany's former president Christian Wulff was honoured at the torchlit military ceremony after leaving office early under the cloud of a political favours probe.
Nearly three weeks after resigning, Wulff, 52, was officially waved off from the largely ceremonial job at a nationally televised evening 'Ceremonial Tattoo' (Grosser Zapfenstreich) in the garden of the president's sumptuous Bellevue Palace.
Wulff, for less than two years Germany's youngest head of state, became embroiled in a quick-fire series of scandals played out in the media, culminating in prosecutors asking parliament to lift his immunity.
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