According to media reports, a man from Mönchengladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia is suspected of having spread the so-called manifesto of the assassin of Halle (Saale) on the Internet. Policemen visited the suspect at the weekend in his apartment Mönchengladbach, as revealed on Wednesday research by WDR, NDR and "Süddeutsche Zeitung".
In the morning, therefore, the man's apartment was searched by judicial decision. "With regard to the ongoing investigation, I can not comment on the facts at present," said the spokesman for the prosecutor Mönchengladbach the reports. Against the man is apparently determined on suspicion of sedition, it was said.
The investigators entrusted with clarifying the attack in Halle investigators of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) were able to identify the suspect from Mönchengladbach by a reference from abroad. US authorities should have previously transmitted the IP addresses of the computer used by the man. According to the reports, the Mönchengladbacher is suspected of having published the approximately 15-page PDF document that the right-wing extremist assassin has written very promptly on the Internet.
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The man is said to have given the police on the weekend willingly his computer, it says in the reports. He also said he did not know the assassin. Politically, he himself is more "left". Neither the police nor the protection of the constitution was known to the man from Mönchengladbach as an extremist.
The assassin Stephan Balliet is in custody. On Wednesday a week ago, the 27-year-old had heavily armed attempts to penetrate into the synagogue in Halle, in which about 50 believers committed the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur. When the plan failed, the offender shot a 40-year-old woman on the street and a 20-year-old man in a doner kebab. There were several injured. Balliet has stood the test, conceding anti-Semitic and right-wing extremist motives.