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Public prosecutor on "NSU 2.0" threatening letter: Beuth wants to relieve the police

2021-05-06T04:40:07.788Z


The alleged author of the right-wing extremist "NSU 2.0" threat letter is in custody. We report on the press conference of the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office in the news ticker.


The alleged author of the right-wing extremist "NSU 2.0" threat letter is in custody.

We report on the press conference of the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office in the news ticker.

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Frankfurt / Berlin - After the alleged author of the right-wing extremist "NSU 2.0" threat * was arrested, the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office will comment on the case again on Wednesday (2:00 p.m.).

A 53-year-old man was arrested in Berlin on Monday evening.

The 53-year-old is suspected of having sent a series of threatening letters with inciting and insulting content nationwide since August 2018.

He is in custody.

In the context of the "NSU 2.0" threatening letters, some questions remain unanswered.

Who is the 53 year old?

Is he a lone perpetrator or part of a right-wing structure that also includes the police?

The letters were signed with "NSU 2.0" in reference to the series of murders by the right-wing extremist terrorist cell National Socialist Underground (NSU).

According to the assessment of the investigation team, it is obvious that the man on the phone pretended to be an employee of the authorities in order to ask various police stations about non-public personal data for the threatening letters.

However, the question remains to what extent the man may have leaked information from the police.

"NSU 2.0": Threats almost always went to public figures

Most of the threatening letters were received by public figures.

This includes the Frankfurt lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz, who represented families of victims in the Munich trial of the NSU murders.

Cabaret artist Idil Baydar and today's Left Party leader Janine Wissler were also affected.

To get on the trail of the 53-year-old, searches were carried out on right-wing populist platforms and forums.

The investigators noticed a user in the “PI-News” forum, whose contributions were similar in form and style to threatening letters.

A linguistic analysis by the BKA corroborated the suspicion.

According to this, a user profile is said to have played an important role on a chess platform.

There was a profile with the same name on "PI-News", whose users used the same cartoon character as their profile picture.

With the help of the IP address and verbal insults in the chess platform's chat, additional profiles could be determined and a reference to Berlin derived from the comments.

In response to inquiries from the operator of the chess platform and from communication providers, an identification and subsequent arrest could be made possible.

"NSU 2.0": Suspects were already known to the police for right-wing crimes

The 53-year-old is said to have threatened a lawyer in Würzburg by phone before the "NSU 2.0" series in 2017, the investigation team suspects.

"The background for the threat was probably the representation of a Syrian refugee by this lawyer." His client was attacked in 2015 after a "media-effective selfie" with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) in a refugee home.

According to previous findings, Interior Minister Beuth sees the Hessian police exonerated: "According to what we know today, a Hessian police officer was never responsible for the 'NSU 2.0' threatening mail series." A spokeswoman for the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office said the investigation into the illegal data queries Hessian police computers went on. A relation of the man to Hessen is currently not known.

The suspect was already known to the investigation team from past, sometimes right-wing, criminal offenses. In 1992 he posed as a criminal investigator, whereupon he was later convicted of presumption of office. The suspect is being investigated on grounds of suspicion of sedition, the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations, the threat and the insult, among other things. (David Suárez Caspar with dpa)

* fr.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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