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The alleged blackmailer of the parcel service DHL is dead. The 36-year-old died on April 9, confirmed the spokesman for the Potsdam public prosecutor, Sebastian Thiele, on request.
First the "image" had reported about it.
The cause of death is unclear, it said.
The death investigation is now being conducted by the Berlin public prosecutor.
The case against the man was dropped.
Man not in custody
According to the prosecutor's office, between September 2017 and January 2018, the man is said to have sent three parcel bombs with threatening letters and in five other cases blackmail letters in Brandenburg and Berlin.
He had turned himself in to the public prosecutor's office at the end of May last year.
The arrest warrant issued as a result was suspended under strict conditions to which the accused adhered, said the spokesman for the public prosecutor's office.
Parcel bomb in pharmacy
On December 1, 2017, a package bomb containing an explosive device, nails and a letter was discovered in a pharmacy on the edge of the Potsdam Christmas market.
In it, DHL demanded a payment with the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, which would have corresponded to a sum of millions in euros.
Nobody got hurt.
At the beginning of November 2017, an explosive shipment arrived at the Frankfurt (Oder) post office.
And in January 2018, a letter with an explosive and incendiary device appeared in a Commerzbank in Berlin-Steglitz.
According to the public prosecutor's office, it was a dummy.
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