For five years a man from Middle Franconia wrote numerous threatening letters and racist postcards.
The police have been in the dark for a long time - until now.
Nuremberg
- He apparently threatened innocent people with death.
After years of searching, a 57-year-old man has now been
arrested
in
the Erlangen-Höchstadt district
.
The man had apparently sent numerous
threatening letters
and postcards.
The basis for the selection of his victims were articles in a Central Franconian daily newspaper.
Police in Nuremberg: Threatening letter writer expresses himself radical right-wing and anti-Semitic
On Friday the
police in Nuremberg *
reported the
success of
the search.
The State Security Commissioner of the
Criminal Police
was finally able to locate the 57-year-old man after five years and over 40 hateful messages.
The cat and mouse game began in 2016. A stranger began
to send letters and postcards, some of them racist and anti-Semitic
, to various people in
Central Franconia
.
In the news he threatened the people massively and wrote about wanting to go to their homes and kill them.
In addition, he repeatedly showed sympathy for
right-wing extremists
.
He selected his victims on the basis of newspaper articles from a Central Franconian daily newspaper.
The newspaper itself also received a few
threatening letters
from the man.
Because some of the threats involved were very massive, the
police
in Nuremberg * carried out risk analyzes on the people threatened.
She even provided
personal protection
for some of them
.
The officers were also able to find
traces of DNA
on the letters
.
However, the samples did not result in a hit in the police databases, according to the Nuremberg police.
Nuremberg: The handcuffs for the threatening letter writer snapped on Monday
Because the man sent his letters and postcards irregularly and anonymously, the
police were
long in the dark.
She writes in a press release: "The man, therefore, for the time being remained a phantom." Only after intensive investigation and with the assistance of
prosecutors in Nuremberg-Fürth
was the residence of the writer letters to be determined.
Then it wasn't long until they found the man themselves.
On Monday (January 11th) the
criminal investigation department was
on his doorstep.
With a search warrant from the Nuremberg District Court in their luggage, they gained access to the suspect's house.
In the interrogation that followed, the 57-year-old confessed to all the deeds.
At no point did he have
a personal relationship with the victims of his
hate mail
.
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The police in Oberkotzau in Upper Franconia had to solve a rather curious case.
A man was admitted to the hospital with more than five per mille, but escaped again a short time later.
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