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Sleeves of a Baden-Wuerttemberg police officer (symbol picture): Shared pictures with a National Socialist background?
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Investigators in Baden-Wuerttemberg came across a chat group among police officers on a seized mobile phone, in which the license plates of anti-constitutional organizations were shared.
This was announced by the police headquarters in Göppingen.
Because of the right-wing extremist pictures, disciplinary proceedings were initiated against 17 police officers.
Ten officers involved are members of the riot police in Bruchsal, the other seven are now working at the police headquarters in Karlsruhe, Mannheim and Pforzheim, it said.
One of the officers is said to have shared three pictures with a National Socialist background.
According to a statement by the public prosecutor's office, however, a criminal investigation was discontinued because there was no public use or dissemination.
Another official published according to the current state of investigation in the group three pictures with an apparently racist background, as a spokesman for the police headquarters in Göppingen, where the riot police are affiliated, said.
In this case, the public prosecutor did not initiate an investigation.
Agitation accepted uncritically?
Numerous similar cases had sparked outrage in the past few months.
Most recently, the North Rhine-Westphalian police carried out more than a dozen searches against several officials who are accused of sedition and other crimes.
Dozens of police officers had previously been suspended from duty.
Several of the service bans have since been lifted.
In the case of the Baden-Württemberg police officers, the 15 other police officers in the chat group are said to have accepted the pictures without criticism or comment.
"Regardless of a criminal assessment by the public prosecutor's office, all possibilities of disciplinary and service law are exhausted by the departments and misconduct is consistently punished," said the presidium.
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