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TV presenter Jan Böhmermann
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According to the police, the request for the registration address of the moderator Jan Böhmermann had business reasons.
The Berlin official in question "plausibly explained" the reasons for the review.
Hesse's Justice Minister Eva Kühne-Hörmann (CDU) informed the state parliament's interior committee on the "NSU 2.0" complex on Thursday.
Dozens of threatening letters are now attributed to this, including to politicians and celebrities.
The proceedings are ongoing at the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor's office.
Kühne-Hörmann said, according to the Ministry of Justice in the state parliament, the Frankfurt investigators had become aware of various other queries about people from police computers.
Accordingly, she also called a query about Jan Böhmermann.
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According to a spokesman for the ministry, the minister said that Böhmermann's data had been queried on July 25, 2019 by a Berlin police officer.
The public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt learned this on August 17, 2020.
The officer in question could therefore remember the query.
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But he could not say whether Böhmermann was the accused, injured party or complainant.
The Berlin police announced on Twitter that the query had been made with a "logged query reason including reasons, query parameters, individual access code & computer identification".
It is a "business inquiry".
According to a press release from the Berlin police, the officer in question is not listed as a suspect in the "NSU 2.0" investigations of the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office.
This could not be reached for a comment.
"FR" reports threatening letters
The Frankfurter Rundschau ("FR") presented the facts differently.
The query was made on July 25, 2020, a few days later, at the beginning of August 2020, a threatening letter was sent by email in which Böhmermann's address was used.
It was not addressed to the satirist but to others.
According to a spokesman, the Minister of Justice did not mention a threatening letter to Böhmermann.
It is the "FR" according to its own information.
The Berlin police finally made it clear in their press release that the query was made in July 2019.
The "NSU 2.0" complex has occupied the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office for many months.
Most recently, the investigators have informed about more than a dozen new letters.
One of the victims is the Frankfurt lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz.
Data from cabaret artist Idil Baydar were also queried by the police's computer, and left-wing politician Janine Wissler is also affected.
In the investigation of right-wing extremist chats by police officers and threatening emails, there are now 25 proceedings against 50 suspects, according to Hesse's judiciary.
88 of 105 threatening letters are assigned to the "NSU 2.0" complex.
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