The German police arrested on the night of Monday to Tuesday in Berlin a suspect in connection with threatening letters signed "
NSU 2.0
", a reference to a small German neo-Nazi group whose members have committed ten racist assassinations during the decade. 2000.
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The 53-year-old had already been convicted in the past for crimes attributed to the far-right movement, said the public prosecutor in Frankfurt am Main. The suspect, unemployed, is "
strongly suspected
" of having sent since August 2018 throughout the country a series of "
threatening letters with inciting, insulting and threatening content
" under the pseudonym "
NSU 2.0
" ", declared the floor. These letters were mainly addressed to public persons, in particular members of the federal parliament and that of the region of Hesse and a lawyer from Frankfurt.
Time and time again, investigators had clues leading them to the police themselves, as the data of those contacted had been collected from police stations. The person arrested, however, is not a police officer, said the prosecution. The Berlin apartment of the alleged author of these letters was also searched.
The murder in June 2019 of Walter Lübcke, elected from the conservative party which defended Chancellor Angela Merkel's policy of welcoming migrants, has awakened the specter of "
brown
"
terrorism
in the country. Underestimated in the 2000s by the authorities despite the murders of eight Turkish immigrants, a Greek and a German policewoman by the neo-Nazi group NSU, the threat is perceived today as a crucial challenge for internal security.