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Police in Essen: Officials are said to have sent racist messages
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In North Rhine-Westphalia there have been a hundred suspected right-wing extremism or racism cases among the police since the beginning of 2017.
This emerges from a report by the state interior ministry for the legal committee of the state parliament for its session.
There were four more suspected cases in the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior.
The state police authorities reported 92 disciplinary proceedings against civil servants and eight suspected cases relating to collective bargaining employees within the police in the reporting period up to the beginning of this week.
According to the dpa news agency, the North Rhine-Westphalian police are also following up 16 further references to right-wing extremist or racist statements in their own ranks.
North Rhine-Westphalia's interior minister Herbert Reul (CDU) reported this to the state parliament's interior committee.
It was only on Thursday that another officer from the Essen Police Headquarters was suspended from duty.
In connection with the hundred suspected cases at the NRW police, 71 proceedings are currently still ongoing.
Of these, 31 were due to the right-wing extremism scandal that became known to the police in Essen last week.
The remaining 29 proceedings have been completed, with eight disciplinary and labor law measures being imposed.
In the other cases the suspicion was not confirmed or it was not possible to impose a measure for other reasons.
In the current Essen case, police officers are said to have posted right-wing extremist and racist pictures in private chat groups.
Other officials are said to have remained silent about the posts as members of the chat groups.
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