Already in August it had become known that a police officer from the Hessian Mühlheim should have sent right-wing extremist content via chat. Now, the Frankfurt prosecutor investigates in a similar case against six now dismissed police candidates - also from Mühlheim.
The suspects are said to have exchanged racist messages. A spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior in Wiesbaden said. The "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" (FAZ) had previously reported that the candidates had sent pictures during their training through a WhatsApp group, "at least inhumane, but mostly racist and anti-Semitic."
The spokesman said that the dismissal decision should have excluded a transfer to the state police service as well as a civil service.
Several cases in the Hessian police
A few weeks ago, a senior police officer from Mühlheim was already targeted by the investigators. He is under suspicion to have sent pictures with right-wing extremist content in a chat, as a spokeswoman for the prosecutor said.
Accordingly, the pictures included a "German Christmas greeting" written in fracture with an iron cross and a banner with the colors of the empire, black and white red. Another picture shows Christmas cookies in swastika form. According to this, the police officer should have sent the photos to colleagues in December 2016.
In recent months, several Hessian police had noticed that had allegedly spread right-wing extremist content. In March, the Home Office spoke of 34 officials who would be investigated. Previously, attorney Seda Basay-Yildiz had received Drohfaxe signed "NSU 2.0". A trail leads to five policemen and a colleague of the 1st Frankfurt police station. The investigation continues.
