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Alexander M. in court: Convicted of threats, among other things
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Alexander M. was convicted in the process of the "NSU 2.0" threatening letter.
According to his defense attorney, he now wants to appeal.
This was announced by the lawyer Ulrich Baumann on request.
M. was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison last Thursday in Frankfurt am Main for a series of emails, faxes and text messages containing death threats and racist insults to lawyers, politicians, journalists and public figures.
The Frankfurt regional court found the 54-year-old guilty of incitement to hatred, disruption of public peace by threatening to commit a crime, use of anti-constitutional symbols, insult, attempted coercion and threats.
The accused had denied the allegations to the end, but the district court saw a single perpetrator as proven.
The letters were signed "NSU 2.0" - an allusion to the right-wing extremist terrorist cell National Socialist Underground (NSU) and their series of murders.
The co-plaintiffs in the Frankfurt trial - the member of the Bundestag Martina Renner (left) and the Frankfurt lawyer Seda Başay-Yıldız - and the public prosecutor said on request that they would not take action against the verdict.
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