Mark Wright and James Fisher are currently serving with the British Army in Munster, Germany. There is an ongoing debate in Germany over the employment of soldiers in the Federal Army (Bundeswehr) who have committed serious crimes or who are members of neo-nazi organisations, and supporters of the McBride family in Germany wrote to the German Defence Minister Rudolph Scharping (from the ruling SPD government), giving him full details of the case and questioning the anomaly of not allowing those convicted of serious crimes to serve in the German army whilst allowing convicted murderers from other armies to serve in Germany.
The Minister replied that he was taking steps to get further details on the case and that he had written to the British government requesting an explanation.
Another German party, the PDS, has stated that they will be asking for information on the where-abouts of the two soldiers during question time in the Federal Parliament in Berlin. It has also been confirmed that Irish Green Party MEP Patricia McKenna has handed details of the case to German Foreign Minister Fischer, from the ruling coalition Green Party.