At the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) three commissioners have noticed with extreme right-wing derailments, as a spokeswoman confirmed the SPIEGEL.
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Against a candidate run a dismissal, he has a house ban. In addition, they have filed charges against him on suspicion of sedition. The junior police officer gave himself the name "Holocaust = fake" in July during a computer-assisted teaching exercise. A second candidate, who gave himself the name "Hitler", had been reprimanded. With regard to his "credible excuse" one refrained from a dismissal.
Another candidate, who participated in the exercise as "NateHigger", could not be identified. "In the BKA there is no room for right or inhuman ideas," said the spokeswoman.
In recent years, there have been several similar incidents that caused a stir throughout Germany. Lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz, for example, who represented relatives of victims in the NSU trial, received Drohfaxe, which was signed with "NSU 2.0". A lane led to the first police station in Frankfurt. The address of the defense lawyer was recently interrogated by one of the service computers, and the investigation is underway.
Questionable patches
A federal police officer noticed at a legal rock concert in Saxony with questionable patches, which are also worn in the right scene. It has recently become known that police supporters from Mühlheim have exchanged racist messages via WhatsApp.
The cases raised the question of how widespread right-wing thinking is among security agencies (read an analysis here). The Inspector of Police in North Rhine-Westphalia, Bernd Heinen, said in a recent SPIEGEL interview that extreme right-wing colleagues are isolated cases. The extremism researcher Christoph Kopke, however, saw a "problematic culture in the police". One must assume a "considerable dark field".
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