Green politician Claudia Roth, like Cem Özdemir, is said to have been threatened with death by alleged right-wing extremists. The group "Nuclear Weapons Division Germany" had written to the Bundestag Vice President, her name is in second place on a "shooting list," report the newspapers of the Funke media group.
Özdemir had also received a concrete death threat, according to the newspapers. He was the first name on the death list, it had accordingly been in an e-mail to the office of the Turkish-born member of parliament. This letter was also signed by the "Nuclear Weapons Division Germany". Both threatening e-mails were received on 27 October. The group is an offshoot of the US-American neonate network "Nuclear Weapons Division" (AWD).
The Bundeskriminalamt referred to the request of the spark newspapers generally to a statement from last year: "The threat of extreme right and right wing terrorist acts in the Federal Republic of Germany remains, even after the announcement of the existence of a German offshoot of the AWD, at an abstract high level . "
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Roth does not want to be intimidated by the writings of the alleged right-wing extremists. "The threat may be directed against Cem and me this time, but it joins a long list of attempted intimidation - against local politicians and civil society, against Jews and Muslims, against women artists and people with a migrant background," she said. "Anyone who believes that we can dissuade us with his dull hatred and history blind hounding from the commitment to a diverse and cosmopolitan society, I have to disappoint bitter."