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Roadblock at the crime scene in Kusel
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In the three weeks after the murder of two police officers near Kusel, the Rhineland-Palatinate investigation group "Hate Speech" found more than 1,600 indications of hatred and hate speech in connection with the crime on the Internet.
According to the State Criminal Police Office in Mainz, 509 of these posts are criminally relevant according to the preliminary status.
So far, 45 processes have been passed on to the Koblenz public prosecutor's office.
The "Heilbronner Voice" had previously reported on the numbers.
A 37-year-old from Saarland and a 55-year-old from Rhineland-Palatinate had already been arrested because of misanthropic comments about the crime.
A 24-year-old police officer and a 29-year-old police commissioner were shot dead on January 31 during a vehicle inspection near Kusel.
As suspected perpetrators, two men are in custody on suspicion of joint murder.
The act had sparked nationwide horror.
Investigators assume that the alleged perpetrators wanted to cover up poaching.
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