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The Frankfurt public prosecutor has closed the investigation against an ex-police officer from Bavaria and his wife in connection with the "NSU 2.0" threatening letters.
This was confirmed by a spokeswoman for the authority.
The "Frankfurter Rundschau" had previously reported.
The suspicion against the couple has not been confirmed, it is said.
The couple from Landshut in Lower Bavaria were temporarily arrested in July last year.
The public prosecutor's office suspected the two of having sent six offensive and seditious e-mails containing the abbreviation "NSU 2.0".
It was not ruled out that they were "free riders".
The alleged author of dozens of letters in the series of threats is a 53-year-old man from Berlin who was arrested in May.
In the meantime, the public prosecutor has brought charges.
It is not yet clear when the process will begin.
Data requested from the Frankfurt police station
The first addressee of the letters signed with "NSU 2.0" was the Frankfurt attorney Seda Başay-Yıldız, who had represented members of the murder victims in the accessory prosecution in the proceedings against the right-wing extremist terrorist cell NSU.
The lawyer and her family were threatened with death in around 20 letters over a period of months.
As part of the investigation, it turned out that the lawyer’s personal data had been requested by a computer in a Frankfurt police station shortly before the first threatening letter.
The data of the left-wing politician Janine Wissler and the cabaret artist Idil Baydar, who also received "NSU 2.0" threatening letters, had also been queried by Hessian police computers.
While the Hessian Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) saw the police as exonerated after the alleged author of the letter was arrested, the women at risk still see numerous open questions and need for clarification.
ptz / dpa
