Again and again, new right-wing extremist threatening letters are sent - signed with "NSU 2.0". Investigators are now assuming almost 100 threats. Four Green politicians are affected.
- The cases of right-wing extremist threatening letters in Germany are increasing.
- The threats are signed "NSU 2.0".
- The recipients include left-wing politician Janine Wissler and cabaret artist Idil Baydar.
Update from August 20, 5:20 pm: In the case of the right-wing extremist "NSU 2.0" threatening letters that were sent to politicians, among others, investigators are now assuming 99 cases . The letters were addressed to 28 people and institutions in eight federal states.
Here are letters were almost always sent from a homonymous sender address, explained Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) on Thursday in Wiesbaden in the Internal Affairs Committee of Parliament. Most of the time it was sent by e-mail, but also by fax, in ten cases by SMS and via internet contact forms. 17 of the letters can be assigned to free riders.
At the end of July, a former police officer and his 55-year-old wife were suspected of sending the letters and were arrested on short notice. In the meantime, however, the investigators assume that the two only play a minor role and are not the originator of the "NSU 2.0" series of threats .
New "NSU 2.0" threatening letters surfaced: Four Greens in the focus of the right-wing extremists - also threatening the family
Update from July 22nd, 10:30 pm: The right-wing extremist group " NSU 2.0 " has sent threatening letters again . This time, four Green politicians were the victims. As a parliamentary group spokesman for the German Press Agency announced , Anton Hofreiter, Renate Künast and Filiz Polat found letters with the group's signature in their mail on Wednesday .
When asked, Hanover’s Lord Mayor Belit Onay also confirmed that he had received a letter from the right-wing extremists. He received a relatively large number of threatening emails anyway , but this also referred to his family , he said, and the connection with the National Socialist underground worries him beyond that. "I take this very seriously," Onay clarified.
Another "NSU 2.0" threatening letter sent - now also affected by Munich residents
Munich - Once again, a right-wing extremist threatening letter signed “NSU 2.0” has been sent - including to a criminal defense lawyer from Munich . The "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" reported that in addition to the cases known so far, two other women were also the target of threatening letters . A Berlin columnist and the defense attorney had told the newspaper that the Hessian police had informed them last year that letters had been intercepted that were attributed to the same source. Both women wanted to remain anonymous for their own protection.
“Welt am Sonntag” also reported that an anonymous author sent at least two emails with identical content to a total of 15 addressees on Friday . In addition to Hesse's Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU), the recipients should also include left-wing politician Janine Wissler and cabaret artist Idil Baydar , who had already received threatening letters. According to information from the German Press Agency, a new e-mail of this type was sent to a number of recipients known to the public.
"NSU 2.0" threatening letter: New mail appeared - this time the name "Deniz Yücel" also appears
The “Welt am Sonntag” reported that the name of the “Welt” correspondent Deniz Yücel appeared for the first time in its present letter . A spokesman for the Hessian Ministry of the Interior in Wiesbaden said that the responsible public prosecutor's office decides what can be communicated to the public in the event of such threatening emails. The public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt could not initially be reached for an opinion.
Yücel told the “Welt am Sonntag”: “I find it disturbing that I only found out about this threatening letter through research by my world colleagues .” Neither the police in Hesse nor in Berlin, where Yücel lives, has had any contact with him put in touch. The journalist has been in the headlines again and again because of the actions of the Turkish judiciary against Yücel - he was recently sentenced in absentia to two years and almost ten months in prison for terrorist propaganda for the banned Kurdish Workers' Party PKK. The ruling met with sharp criticism from the federal government.
Right-wing extremist threats: Meanwhile, right-wing networks in the Hessian police are no longer excluded
The spokesman for the Hessian interior ministry said that citizens threatened with right-wing extremist e-mails, who mostly lived in Hesse, would be contacted by the state's criminal investigation department . It assesses the threat and takes "the appropriate protective measures". In the case of citizens of other federal states, the competent authorities there would be informed if necessary.
The public prosecutor's office in Germany is already investigating several cases of right-wing extremist threatening letters . Some of the emails were signed with "NSU 2.0". In three cases, the personal data of those affected had previously been requested from Hessian police computers. In the meantime, State Interior Minister Beuth is no longer ruling out the possibility of a right-wing network in the Hessian police force. A special investigator was appointed.
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