The Turenne Barracks Scandal
The Straw Man and the State’s Trap How a corruption scandal involving the Church, the State, and a penniless buyer created a multi-million Euro abyss. To understand the tragedy of the hundreds of families ruined in Zweibrücken , one must first look at the origins of the money - and the desperation of the State to sell its assets. The story begins not with a housing estate, but with a massive corruption scandal involving the Catholic Church and a shadowy deal orchestrated within the offices of the federal administration . The Architects of the Fall: Doerfert and Tabellion In the late 1990s , a massive financial scandal shook the Caritas Trägergesellschaft Trier (CTT) . At the center was Hans-Joachim Doerfert , a charismatic manager who treated the church’s coffers as his personal bank account. Doerfert was eventually convicted of embezzlement and fraud involving over 20 million Marks . But Doerfert did not act alone. Key to his network was Josef Tabellion , a top manage...