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Far right: resignation of a German police official

2020-07-15T17:32:18.218Z


A regional official of the German police announced on Tuesday his resignation in the face of a growing scandal over his services' links with the far right in order to threaten various personalities on the left. Read also: Far right: Germany partially dissolves its elite military unit The case follows the recent discovery of the use of a police computer from the regional state of Hesse, where Fra...


A regional official of the German police announced on Tuesday his resignation in the face of a growing scandal over his services' links with the far right in order to threaten various personalities on the left.

Read also: Far right: Germany partially dissolves its elite military unit

The case follows the recent discovery of the use of a police computer from the regional state of Hesse, where Frankfurt is located, to find private data on people who have received death threats and insults from the ultra-right by post or emails. This discovery suggests that this movement has accomplices inside the German police. She has created a national scandal in recent days.

Hesse regional police chief Udo Münch drew the consequences by announcing that he was leaving his post and going on early retirement. Official reason invoked: he had failed to inform his Minister of the Interior of the suspicions weighing on his services.

Udo Münch said that he acted negligently and not with the aim of stifling the affair but " as a high-ranking police officer I must bear the consequences of the breaches, for which I am not solely responsible ." To date, it has been established that the Hesse police service computer has been used to download personal data from a leftist politician from this region and an artist.

Neo-Nazi stronghold

Both have received several threat letters or emails in recent months, signed in particular " NSU 2.0 ". A reference to a small German neo-Nazi group, whose members committed around ten racist murders during the 2000s. A German lawyer known to defend migrants, Seda Basay-Yildiz, has also received threats in the past. of this movement.

The region of Hesse has the reputation of being a neo-Nazi stronghold since the assassination about a year ago in this region of a pro-migrant elected representative of the CDU party of Mrs. Merkel, Walter Lübcke. The trial of the alleged killer, a neo-Nazi sympathizer, recently opened amid fears of the escalation of far-right terrorism in the country.

It is also in a town in this region, Hanau, that a man who expressed racist positions killed in February nine people of foreign origin in several shootings. Police recently discovered lists of leftist figures in several operations targeting neo-Nazi groups.

Source: lefigaro

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