NSU 2.0

With “NSU 2.0” , German right-wing extremists have signed a series of death threats that they have been sending anonymously to specific recipients from the Darknet since 2018 by fax , email , SMS or contact forms. The signature alludes to the right-wing terrorist group " National Socialist Underground " (NSU), which murdered at least ten people between 2000 and 2007, nine of them for racist motives.

From August 2, 2018 to August 20, 2020, strangers with this signature have sent at least 99 threatening letters to various addressees in Germany. They first threatened the Frankfurt lawyer Seda Başay-Yıldız and other victim lawyers in the NSU trial , then others who were publicly active against racism , anti-Semitism and people involved in politics, the arts, the media and the judiciary for refugees and migrants , most of them women. Many threatening letters contained personal data of the addressees that were not publicly known and not accessible.

In at least three cases, this data was accessed promptly beforehand from the computers of the Hesse police force , and in one case each from the Berlin police force and Hamburg police force . During the investigation, at least 70 suspected cases of right-wing extremist Hessian police officers were discovered. The threats continued after several suspected police officers were suspended, and often related to ongoing law enforcement. Here a right-wing radical network in the Hessian police is suspected as the originator or accessory.

Between October 2018 and April 2019, right-wing extremists sent a total of 107 threatening e-mails and 87 bomb threats to German judicial and administrative authorities, the media, under various cover names, mostly "National Socialist Offensive", but also "NSU 2.0", " Wehrmacht ", "Elysium" or "Staatsstreichorchester" , individual politicians and the pop singer Helene Fischer . Right-wing extremist André M. was arrested as an urgent suspect in April 2019. After that, the threats signed “Staatsstreichorchester” from André M's alleged circle of supporters continued. They met around 200 people. A series signed “SS-Obersturmbannführer” from 2019 was directed against the cabaret artist Idil Baydar .

Further death threats are signed with “Wolfzeit”, “Wolfszeit 2.0” or a wolf symbol. In spring 2020 they mainly met politicians who campaign for refugees. The various senders often explicitly refer to right-wing terrorist attacks in recent years.

In the course of the investigation, thousands of illegal data queries were made known to German police authorities, which had previously hardly been controlled and sanctioned.

Overview

date	signature	Addressees	features
2nd Aug 2018	"NSU 2.0"	Seda Başay-Yıldız	after data retrieval in the 1st police station in Frankfurt / Main; daughter also threatened.
18th Dec 2018	"Wehrmacht"	Mustafa Kaplan, other victim lawyers, investigative authorities, media	Blackmail attempt
20th Dec 2018	"NSU 2.0"	Seda Başay-Yıldız	Reference to suspended police officers; also threatens parents and husbands
Dec 2018	"Wehrmacht"		Appeal for murder against Seda Başay-Yıldız in the darknet forum; Relation to media reports
Jan 2019	Police instructor name, "HLKA"	Seda Başay-Yıldız
January 11, 2019	"NSU 2.0" "Wehrmacht", "Elysium"	Aiman ​​Mazyek , Josef Schuster
4th Feb 2019	"NSU 2.0"	Seda Başay-Yıldız
Oct 2018 – Apr 2019	“National Socialist Offensive”, “NSU 2.0”, “Staatsstreichorchester” et al.	Courts, authorities, city ​​administrations, media, Helene Fischer, Katarina Barley et al.	107 threatening emails, 87 bomb threats from André M. and supporters
Mar – Nov 2019	"SS-Obersturmbannführer"	Idil Baydar	after data retrieval in the 4th Wiesbaden police station; eight death threats with personal information
13 Apr 2019	"NSU retaliation command"	Shermin Langhoff	Reference to action by the Center for Political Beauty against Björn Höcke
5th Jun 2019	"NSU 2.0" "Prinz Eugen SSOSTUBAF"	Seda Başay-Yıldız	Relation to the murder of Walter Lübcke
Jun 2019	"NSU 2.0"	Seda Başay-Yıldız, LKA Hessen, Federal Prosecutor's Office	Relation to ongoing investigations
Jun 2019	"Coup d'état orchestra"	Henriette Reker , Andreas Hollstein	Reference to the murder of Walter Lübcke, fundraising on the Darknet for her shooting
from Jul 2019	"Coup d'état orchestra"	nationwide journalists, editors, politicians	demands acquittal for André M.
10 Jul 2019	"NSU 2.0"	Seda Başay-Yıldız
12 Jul 2019	"Coup d'état orchestra"	Journalists	Call for murder against Seda Başay-Yıldız on the Darknet
30th Sep 2019	[unnamed]	Mike Mohring	Death threat in the Thuringia state election campaign
Oct 14, 2019	[unnamed]	Robert Habeck	Call for murder on Facebook
from Oct 9, 2019	"Coup d'état orchestra"	[unnamed]	Relation to the attack in Halle (Saale) 2019
19th Oct 2019	"Coup d'état orchestra"	Mike Mohring	Death threat in the Thuringia state election campaign
Oct 21, 2019	"Coup d'état orchestra"	Dirk Adams	Death threat in the Thuringia state election campaign
2019	"NSU 2.0"	Columnist in Berlin, defense lawyer in Munich
15./22. Feb 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Janine Wissler	after data retrieval in the 3rd police station in Wiesbaden
Feb / Mar 2020	"Wolf time", wolf symbol	Christiane Schneider , Erik Marquardt
2nd Mar 2020	"Wolfszeit 2.0"	Katina Schubert	third death threat of its kind
20th Apr 2020	"Coup d'état orchestra"	The daily mirror	demands acquittal for André M., threatens attacks like in "Kassel, Halle, Hanau"
21 Apr 2020	"NSU 2.0"	District court Berlin-Moabit	Bomb threat at the start of the trial against André M.
until Apr 21, 2020	"NSU 2.0", "Staatsstreichorchester", "Wehrmacht"	Martina Renner	12 threatening emails from André M., more from his supporters
19th May 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Public prosecutor	Regarding the trial of André M.
May 21, 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Investigator of the LKA Berlin	Regarding the trial of André M.
Jul 2020	"NSU 2.0"	taz	Reference to taz journalist
4th-6th Jul 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Janine Wissler
from Jul 5, 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Anne Helm	publicly inaccessible private data
9 Jul 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Volker Bouffier , Peter Beuth , special investigator Hanspeter Mener	Regarding investigations against the senders
until 10 Jul 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Martina Renner, Anne Helm	publicly inaccessible private data
13./14. July 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Idil Baydar
14 Jul 2020	"AFD"	Helin Evrim Summer	Relation to the Lübcke murder case
14 Jul 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Parliamentary groups in the State of Hesse , Maybrit-Illner talk show	Death threats against Janine Wissler, Martina Renner, Anne Helm, Idil Baydar, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah , Maybrit Illner . Regarding the resignation of Police President Udo Münch
16 Jul 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Mehmet Daimaguler
18 Jul 2020	"SS-Obersturmbannführer"	Roland Ullmann; 15 other addressees	threatens Deniz Yücel , Hengameh Yaghoobifarah
19 Jul 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Jutta Ditfurth	anti-Semitic, murder fantasies, with private information
20th Jul 2020	"NSU 2.0" "The Führer"	Sawsan Chebli , Karamba Diaby , Jutta Ditfurth, Michel Friedman , Katrin Göring-Eckardt , Katja Kipping , Claudia Roth , Martina Renner, Deniz Yücel and others	Death threat, knowledge of home address
21 Jul 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Volker Beck , Gökdeniz Özcetin
July 21, 2020	"Eugen Prinz", "NSU 2.0"	Josef Schuster
22 Jul 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Anton Hofreiter , Renate Künast , Aiman ​​Mazyek , Belit Onay , Filiz Polat
23rd July 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Gökay Akbulut , Amira Mohamed Ali , Sevim Dagdelen , Anton Hofreiter, other Green MPs, Gökdeniz Özcetin
29 Jul 2020	"NSU 2.0"	Saskia Esken

sender

By August 20, 2020, the State Criminal Police Office of Hesse (LKA) was aware of at least 99 threatening letters with the signature "NSU 2.0". They went to 28 people, mostly politicians from the parties Die Linke and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , and institutions in eight federal states. Most were sent as e-mail from an identical address, some also by fax, ten by SMS and via internet contact forms. The investigators assign 17 threats to imitators ("free riders"). Most of the data used can come from publicly available sources, some from queries in the data systems of the Hessian police.

The sender (s) move on the Darknet and apparently feel very safe. You always use certain email addresses that were registered and encrypted via a Tor browser , first the address [e-mail] , lastly the address [e-mail] from the Swiss provider Protonmail . This refers to the Nazi criminal Rudolf Hess, who was revered under neo-Nazism . The sender of the 2020 emails signed with "NSU 2.0 Der Führer" always uses a racist swear word and @ yandex.com as the email address. The provider Yandex is based in Russia .

The amount of emails, their addressees and the private details in them increased significantly from July 2020. They contained registration addresses, cell phone numbers, names of children, information on living conditions and doorbell signs. Some of the details looked as if the sender or sender knew something about internal police matters. In addition, the brutal threats were mostly followed by malice about the apparently perplexed investigators. It was clear that the lack of success in the investigation encouraged the senders to increase the threats. So far, the investigators consider both a misogynistic and narcissistic individual perpetrator to be possible, who has laboriously compiled the data of his victims and has technical skills, as well as a group that has networked in the darknet, exchanges information and takes turns writing and sending the threats.

The e-mail addresses, dispatch routes and the language of the e-mails show clear connections between the various series of threats. All mails signed with the “National Socialist Offensive” (NSO) are traced back to the right-wing extremist André M. The mails with the Yandex address and the signature "NSU 2.0" come from his circle of supporters. This includes at least two, possibly more right-wing extremist men. Some of these emails contain confidential data from the police and the judiciary: Here the authors can be with the police themselves or have helpers there, or they can obtain information from the police via a darknet forum. A Darknet user with the username "Wehrmacht" seems to be a connoisseur and possibly distributor of this detailed information. In response to an inquiry sent to the “NSU 2.0” e-mail address at Yandex, the weekly newspaper Die Zeit received the following reply: “We are a loose association of loyal elite fighters who only meet online under a pseudonym. Nobody knows anyone personally. ”How many people were behind the emails, he“ doesn't know exactly ”himself. Lists with information about the addressees of the threatening mails would be passed on among each other.

The mails from this group of supporters are often signed with several names, in addition to "Wehrmacht" also "NSU 2.0", "Elysium" and "The musicians of the Staatsstreichorchester". The investigators suspect a single, technically savvy sender who pretends to be a collective. The sender (s) used addresses with extensions such as “@ hitler.rocks”, “@ nuke.africa” or “@ getbackinthe.kitchen” as addresses. They sent the e-mails via the “cock.li” e-mail service operated by the 25-year-old Vincent Canfield, who uses the server of the Internet service provider “FlokiNet” (Kolja Weber) in Romania . According to Canfields from October 2019, his service had assigned the address “@ hitler.rocks” to 6,853 of more than 500,000 registered users.

Some mails signed with "NSU 2.0" have different senders and, according to Hessian investigators, may come from various imitators ("free riders") who in turn threaten politicians, media, artists and other celebrities.

Addressees

Seda Başay-Yıldız

On August 2, 2018 at 3:41 pm, the Frankfurt lawyer Seda Başay-Yıldız received the first threatening fax with the signature "NSU 2.0". The letterhead read: "This free fax was sent to you by Uwe Böhnhardt ". Then it followed: "In retaliation for 10,000 euros we will slaughter your daughter". This was followed by the daughter's first name, the correct street and house number of the family and verbal abuse: “Lousy Turkish pig! You're not killing Germany. Better piss off while you get out of here alive, you pig! ”Like the opening sentence, the signature“ NSU 2.0 ”alluded to the murders of the NSU, so it was part of the death threat. The lawyer represented the family of Enver Şimşek , the NSU's first murder victim, as a joint plaintiff in the NSU trial from 2013 until the judgment on July 11, 2018 . In addition, she had successfully defended alleged Islamist threats in court against her deportation. She had therefore often received racist threatening letters. Because she had never given her daughter's name publicly and had her address deleted from the phone book years earlier, she filed a criminal complaint for the first time.

On December 20, 2018, she received the second threatening letter signed “NSU 2.0”. For tactical reasons, it was only announced on January 14, 2019. This time it contained the full names of her father, mother, husband and again her daughter, all of which were registered at the same address. The data could only come from the population register in police computers. In addition, the text referred to the suspension of the Frankfurt police officers: “You brain-dead shit kebab is obviously not aware of what you did to our police colleagues! However, things are getting really tough for you now, you turkish pig! Your shit (name of daughter) we'll tear the head off ... and the rest of your kebab crew will also be looked after competently. "

After the first threatening letter, Başay-Yıldız had their data blocked in the population register so that private individuals could no longer inquire about their home address from it. The origin of the address could be explained in different ways: Police officers on duty could have retrieved the data and wrote the letter; other police officers must have covered that. That would speak for a right-wing extremist network in the Hessian police. However, the data can also have been called up the first time and then distributed between the two threatening letters. Or the data was accessed in another authority despite the reporting block. Experts said that the phrase “police colleagues” in the letter was unusual for police officers.

In January 2019, Başay-Yıldız received two more threatening letters with similar racist abuse against her and her family, apparently from the same sender. However, one letter was signed with a first and last name, not "NSU 2.0". The man of this name is a well-known police trainer in Hessen. According to investigators, he should have nothing to do with the threats; the perpetrator or perpetrators would have misused his name, but thereby betrayed insider knowledge. The letter text used the abbreviation "HLKA" for Hessian State Criminal Police Office : Investigators believed this to be the official jargon that is only used among civil servants and that also indicates insider knowledge. Therefore, the perpetrator or perpetrators were suspected to be in the Hessian police. According to information from security circles, there was no second request for private data of the lawyer via a police computer. The data from the first query should circulate in right-wing extremist groups. Because the State Criminal Police Office uses the abbreviation HLKA in its Twitter account and in the e-mail address of its press office, it does not have to reveal any inside information, according to the magazine Der Spiegel .

On February 4, 2019, the lawyer and the Frankfurt Police Headquarters received an identical threatening fax that was sent via the same encrypted connection as the previous one.

On June 5, 2019, three days after Walter Lübcke's murder , Başay-Yıldız received the sixth threatening letter. It was signed with "NSU 2.0" and "Prinz Eugen SSOSTUBAF". This probably abbreviates SS-Obersturmbannführer and alludes to the 7th SS-Freiwilligen-Gebirgs-Division "Prinz Eugen" , which had committed many war crimes during the National Socialist era . Eleven days before right-wing extremist Stephan Ernst was arrested, the author (s) threatened analogously that they had killed Lübcke; soon it would be the lawyer’s turn. It remained unclear whether this indicated that the perpetrator was aware of the crime or whether imitators used the murder to intimidate them.

By the end of June 2019, Seda Başay-Yıldız received further threatening faxes signed with "NSU 2.0". The LKA Hessen and the Federal Prosecutor's Office also received threatening emails signed in this way, each with reference to their ongoing investigations, from the LKA on the "NSU 2.0" case and from the Federal Prosecutor on the murder of Walter Lübcke. The investigators did not disclose details of the content; but some of them are seditious.

On July 10, 2019, the lawyer received another threatening fax from the Darknet. It again contained a murder call and was signed with “Sieg Heil und Heil Hitler ! Sincerely, The musicians of the Staatsstreichorchester ”. On July 12, 2019, a group on the Darknet called for the murder of the lawyer and informed some journalists about it by email. This mail was also signed with the Hitler salute and “The musicians of the Staatsstreichorchester”. These threats only became known in September 2019.

According to reports from July 2020, Seda Başay-Yıldız had received more than a dozen threatening emails from the same sender by then.

Other defense lawyers

On December 18, 2018, several defense lawyers, including another former lawyer for victims of the NSU murders, as well as investigative authorities and the media and journalists received a threatening mail signed “NSU 2.0”. It remained unclear whether it came from the same sender as Başay-Yıldız or from a copycat. The sender called himself "Wehrmacht", demanded, among other things, ten million euros in the network currency Bitcoin and threatened to murder children and officials. He had already threatened criminal defense lawyers for people with a migration background several times. The emails did not contain any specific reference to the Frankfurt case. One recipient, the Cologne lawyer Mustafa Kaplan, filed a criminal complaint.

In 2019 a threatening email of this kind was sent to a Munich defense lawyer and a Berlin columnist who wanted to remain anonymous.

The lawyer Mehmet Daimagüler from Siegburg , who had represented victims' members in the NSU trial, interpreted the data retrievals and threatening e-mails to his colleague Seda Başay-Yıldız in December 2019 as a result of “that the NSU issue is ticked off in politics and that there is no major issue There is a debate about institutional racism ”. According to his own statements, he himself received a threat mail signed "NSU 2.0" on July 16, 2020. He has received many right-wing threats for years, but this was the first with this signature. He decided not to file a criminal complaint because he saw little chance of success in the investigation.

On July 24, 2020, Daimagüler stated in an interview: He had already reported several threatening e-mails, but the related proceedings were all discontinued without informing him or giving reasons. Many of his clients experienced the same and therefore often waived criminal charges. The threats would have already achieved part of their goal. Therefore, in the end, you consider how you can protect yourself. Daimagüler sharply criticized the Hessian state government: If an inventory like that of July 21, 2020, it would have had to cede completely in other countries. After the unsolved NSU murder of Halit Yozgat (April 6, 2006) and years of threatening e-mails from an “NSU 2.0”, one is faced with a “Hessian declaration of bankruptcy”. There is a connection between the state downplaying of the NSU, racist police work, failure to clarify the role of informers of the constitutional protection and the threatening mails. His fear expressed in the NSU trial that "after the NSU is before the NSU" has been confirmed. He is personally not afraid, but that the state leaves threatened committed people alone is "devastating for democracy" and sooner or later destroy it. Several federal states do not know how to deal with right-wing extremist officials in security authorities, the police and the armed forces . There are "coupists in spe" at work who "work against this state". For this, organizational solutions would have to be found from outside.

actor

On April 13, 2019, the general manager Shermin Langhoff received an email from an "NSU retaliation squad" with a death threat to all actors at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, which she directed . The sender announced revenge for an action with which the Center for Political Beauty had protested against a speech by Björn Höcke ( AfD ). Langhoff filed a criminal complaint.

On July 21 and 23, 2020, the actor Gökdeniz Özcetin from Bad Kreuznach received a death threat with the sender "NSU 2.0" via the Darknet. The first email said: “Day X is getting closer and closer and you TÜRKENSAU will hang.” The second said: “We'll get you and then slaughter you. You can still hide, but day X is getting closer and then you will run. Sieg Heil! With bloody greetings, NSU 2.0 ”. Özcetin showed the emails and announced that the state security in Mainz, an investigative team of the "K12", was dealing with the case.

Özcetin took part in a protest against the right-wing marches in Kandel (Palatinate) in 2017 and was attacked and injured by a right-wing extremist on the train ride there. The offender was sentenced to a fine on July 24, 2020. But since 2017, Özcetin has been repeatedly attacked by right-wing extremists. He classified the new death threats in this context.

Politicians

On February 15 and 22, 2020, Janine Wissler, the leader of the left-wing parliamentary group in the State of Hesse, received two threats signed with "NSU 2.0". She met with Seda Başay-Yıldız at the end of January 2020. The sender berated Wissler and threatened her with a "day X" on which the police would not protect her. He underlined the threat with personal, not publicly available data from Wissler. Furthermore, he allegedly alleged internal knowledge and insulted some officials of an internal intelligence group about right-wing extremist incidents in the Hessian police. He used the Nazi greetings "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler".

Shortly before it was sent in February 2019, someone had queried Wissler's publicly inaccessible data, including her private address, from a police computer in Wiesbaden for no specific reason. These threatening emails only became known on July 4, 2020. After the newspaper report on this, a further threatening letter signed "NSU 2.0" was received by Wissler on the same day. Abusive inquiries about personal data and their disclosure to right-wing extremists had occurred several times in the Hesse police force in recent years. The Interior Ministry left it open whether police officers were suspended or otherwise disciplined in this new case. By the end of July 2020, Janine Wissler had received a total of eight such threatening emails.

On July 10, 2020, "NSU 2.0" also wrote to Hesse's Prime Minister Volker Bouffier and Interior Minister Peter Beuth. He addressed them as “Heil you comrades”, referred to their announcement that they would be looking for the perpetrator at full speed, and asked them to publish a given declaration on their homepages; otherwise they would be killed themselves. The special agent Hanspeter Mener, who Beuth appointed on July 9, also received a threatening mail in his mailbox.

Martina Renner, member of the Bundestag of the Left and co-plaintiff in the criminal case against André M., had received twelve threatening e-mails with the signature “NationalSozialistischeOffensive” and others with the signature “NSU 2.0”, “Wehrmacht” or “Staatsstreichorchester”. On April 21, 2020, the first day of the trial before the Berlin district court, she received another threatening mail from "NSU 2.0".

Anne Helm, leader of the Left Party in the Berlin House of Representatives, has received several threatening e-mails "NSU 2.0" at short intervals since July 5, 2020. They came from the same Russian Yandex address as the mails to a public prosecutor and an LKA investigator who are involved in the trial against André M. It contained misogynistic, vulgar and right-wing extremist content and personal information that Helm had not published anywhere. More recent threats of violence from this sender followed directly on her public statements, for example about possible connections between her case and the police in Hesse.

Until July 10, 2020, Martina Renner and Anne Helm (group chairmen of the Left in Berlin) received further death threats with personal, publicly unknown and hardly researchable information. Renner spoke of a total failure of the LKA Hessen and the interior minister, who had dealt with the case far too late. Helm explained that there was very strong evidence of contacts between the perpetrator and the neo-Nazi scene in Berlin. She is therefore convinced that the mails came from a nationwide network.

It has not yet been clarified whether the data in the emails to Helm were also tapped from police computers and, if so, where. Helm explained that in her case the traces pointed more to Berlin; information in it was "probably collected through spying on my living area". The Neukölln neonazine network has been using this method for a long time. It is therefore obvious that the senders of the mails are also connected to this network. Helm referred to an ongoing disciplinary procedure against a Berlin police officer for treason: "He had shared information about investigations in a chat group in which at least one of the Neukölln main suspects was active." Since this officer was still part of the Hessian police at the time of the crime, there is definitely a connection there. Helm is a spokeswoman for strategies against right-wing extremism, has been threatened several times by right-wing extremists and was on a neo-Nazi list of enemies in Berlin.

On July 14, 2020, the Bundestag member Helin Evrim Sommer (Die Linke Berlin) received a similar death threat by email, which, according to her press spokesman, was signed "AFD". It will fare just as well as the murdered Kassel District President Walter Lübcke. She too had been subjected to right-wing intimidation on several occasions. Her name and that of her husband have also been on an enemy list of Neukölln neo-Nazis since 2010. The police had informed her of this just a few days earlier. Party leader Bernd Riexinger demanded immediate police protection for those affected.

On the night of July 20, 2020, Frankfurt city councilor Jutta Ditfurth ( ÖkoLinx ) received a threat mail signed "NSU". According to her, this contained strikingly violent anti-Semitic insults and unknown information from her private life. The anonymous author insults her as "Germany enemy", " Judensau " and as "shame for her Aryan family". She should learn to do without transfers from the Rothschild family . He describes the way in which they want to kill them: that under certain circumstances they will be lured into a certain cellar to sever their body parts and let them die as a torso without a head. The e-mail shows the deep-seated misogyny that is common in right-wing and fascist circles, but unlike other threatening e-mails, it is largely written in a noticeably cool tone. It contains a mixture of allegations, allegations and abuse as well as some references to your family and your address: "Someone must have watched what I write for a long time." He gives her private address, but no other people. The mail ends with "The National Socialist Underground 2.0 - NSU wishes you Heil Hitler". The security in which the perpetrator or perpetrators felt is bad. A special investigator from the public prosecutor's office has already contacted her to get an idea of ​​the threats. In the last few years she had met people in Frankfurt several times, including an alleged police officer, who made it clear to her: “We have an eye on you.” Her house had fires twice. She finds it “very strange that large corporations document every surfing misconduct by their employees very precisely during working hours, while the Hessian police do not manage to investigate within their own ranks. That can only mean two things: either that they are completely incapable. Or that they are unwilling and a right-wing radical network is supported. ”The mail to Ditfurth relates to the current series of threats from the“ NSU 2.0 ”, but differs in important points from other mails with this signature. Its content is more in line with earlier threats that Ditfurth has received for years. Therefore another sender is assumed here.

On July 20, 2020, 15 people received a verbatim e-mail from "NSU 2.0", including, for the first time, Berlin State Secretary Sawsan Chebli ( SPD ), again Jutta Ditfurth, Bundestag Vice-President Claudia Roth (Greens), Left-wing chairwoman Katja Kipping, Greens parliamentary group leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt, the MPs Martina Renner and Karamba Diaby (SPD) as well as the journalist Deniz Yücel and the publicist Michel Friedman. They were insulted as “human filth” and threatened collectively: “We all know exactly where you live. We will slaughter you all. "

According to Jutta Ditfurth, the second email to her also had racist, sexist and explicitly anti-Semitic content. The sender described "martial types of slaughter" and signed it with "NSU 2.0 Der Führer Heil Hitler". Ditfurth emphasized that the threatening letters were not a great shock to her, as she had been experiencing such threats since the 1980s, both on her house and in the mail. Therefore, she sometimes takes personal protection with her to her lectures, preferably from Antifa . She passed the threatening emails to her lawyer, who is now filing a criminal complaint and a criminal complaint. However, you lack the confidence that the Hessian police can or want to solve the matter.

Volker Beck (Greens) announced on July 21, 2020 that he had also received a threatening mail from NSU 2.0.

On July 22, 2020, four Green politicians received a threatening mail: Belit Onay, the Lord Mayor of Hanover , Anton Hofreiter, the leader of the Greens in the Bundestag, as well as the MPs Renate Künast and Filiz Polat. The sender threatened to kill her and signed “Heil Hitler”, “The National Socialist Underground 2.0” and “NSU 2.0”. The Greens filed a criminal complaint. Onay stated, “Threats and intimidation are becoming unbearable. We have to be alarmed because the verbal incitement to violence is always followed by acts of violence. "According to Künast, the emails affirm that" society and its security authorities really have to concentrate on fighting right-wing extremism and right-wing terrorism ". Otherwise society will fall apart. Polat saw these emails as a particular threat if there was actually a real network of German security authorities behind them.

The senders of the threatening emails from July 20-23, 2020 claimed to know the whereabouts of the threatened. Their families and friends have also been spied on. The authors showed sympathy with Nazi criminals such as Heinrich Himmler , Rudolf Hess or with Prince Eugene of Savoy , who had defeated the Turkish troops around 300 years ago. Despite the identical signature “NSU 2.0”, imitators were suspected here because of other characteristics.

On July 23, 2020 the members of the Bundestag of the Left Amira Mohamed Ali, Sevim Dagdelen and Gökay Akbulut as well as unnamed members of the Greens and again their parliamentary group leader Anton Hofreiter received threatening emails with the sender "NSU 2.0". Initially, no recipient commented on the content, but they were all in contact with the Federal Criminal Police Office.

On July 29, 2020, SPD chairwoman Saskia Esken announced that she had received a death threat from "NSU 2.0". The content is indescribably hideous. You have displayed the mail, but do not expect the investigation to be successful. You do not feel personally threatened, but worry about the right-wing extremist threat situation in society as a whole.

Journalists, media

On the evening of July 14, 2020, the editorial staff of the ZDF talk show received an email signed “NSU 2.0” from Maybrit Illner. The sender suggested that Illner invite the left-wing politicians Janine Wissler, Martina Renner and Anne Helm, the cabaret artist Idil Baydar and the taz journalist Hengameh Yaghoobifarah to a program with the topic “When will Germany finally be abolished?”. He threatened all six women with death and accused Illner of being committed to the “abolition of the fucking Germans, the destruction of the potato culture and the exchange of people ”. He indicated that he was a police officer himself, that he had already sent several right-wing extremist emails and that more would follow. Finally, he referred to the "comrades of the Staatsstreichorchester" who had also sent threatening letters nationwide in 2019, including to journalists. He also referred to the resignation of the State Police President Udo Münch on the same day. This mail was also sent to several parliamentary groups in the Hesse state parliament. The language style is similar to previous letters, so that the same sender is assumed.

On July 17, 2020, the Berlin editors of the taz announced that they had received two emails from "NSU 2.0" "a few weeks ago" in which a taz journalist had been threatened.

On July 18, 2020, "NSU 2.0" sent another threatening email to the address of the new state police president Roland Ullmann and a wide distribution list, including Prime Minister Volker Bouffier, the LKA, the Frankfurt public prosecutor, special investigator Hanspeter Mener, the federal headquarters of the CDU and some media. The identical email content threatened journalist Deniz Yücel for the first time and journalist Hengameh Yaghoobifarah again, but this time without any personal data from them. 15 people received this threatening mail, including again Janine Wissler, Idil Baydar and Peter Beuth. Deniz Yücel stated that he only found out through media research, not the police, that his name was included.

Aiman ​​Mazyek and Josef Schuster

On January 11, 2019, "NSU 2.0" sent Aiman ​​Mazyek ( Central Council of Muslims in Germany ) and Josef Schuster ( Central Council of Jews in Germany ) an identical threatening mail with murder fantasies. The subject line read "Call for the annihilation of Josef Schuster and Aiman ​​Mazyek". On July 21, 2020, Josef Schuster received a second email, signed with "NSU 2.0". It also contained murder slogans, but had a different name in the sender field.

Aiman ​​Mazyek received two more such death threats, signed “Heil Hitler Dein NSU 2.0”. The third came on July 22, 2020. It threatened him with gassing and dismembering his family. Mazyek said it was a “cowardly crime”, but that it encouraged his commitment against all forms of racism. Under no circumstances will he let such “democracy-destroying, racist tirades” hinder his work. He later added: The mail was also directed against family members by name. The perpetrator must "at least have researched well and have watched me for a long time". He filed a criminal complaint because these emails were samples for further, more serious crimes and therefore one should not remain silent about them. The investigations should show whether the sender had access to official data.

"SS-Obersturmbannführer"

On July 13, 2020 it was announced that the cabaret artist Idil Baydar also received threatening emails with personal data. These had already been queried without authorization by a computer belonging to the Hessen police in March 2019. The query took place in the 4th district of the police headquarters in Wiesbaden.

On November 23, 2019, Baydar gave a speech commemorating the racist arson attack in Mölln on November 23, 1992. According to her information, she had previously received eight death threats by email, most recently the threat that she would be "gunned down". In 2020, she received further threats via SMS for months, sent anonymously via the platform 5 to 12. All emails and SMS were signed with "SS Obersturmbannführer", also abbreviated as "SS-Ostubaf". Her mother was also named and threatened with shooting. She reported all of the emails, but all eight proceedings were discontinued without result.

Baydar deals with the issue of racism against migrants in its cabaret program and is also otherwise politically active. She has been exposed to threats many times and works with personal security. She only found out about the data query from the previous year in July 2020 from a reporter for the Frankfurter Rundschau .

Baydar publicly criticized this police behavior from July 14, 2020 and said in interviews: She is afraid of the police because those who are supposed to protect her are apparently part of a right-wing extremist network of unknown proportions. The police are apparently indifferent to her threat situation, as not a single police officer has reported to her to date. Instead, the police are "offended" that they have now made the threats public. Since the NSU trial at the latest, she has been aware that the police are against migrants and tend to criminalize the victims of a crime. The deaths of Oury Jalloh and Amad Ahmad after cell fires in police custody are not isolated cases. She would like the police to provide complete clarification and “a real signal” that right-wing extremism has no place in the police. Especially after the NSU murders, criticism of the police was necessary, as they were "an armed state organ and not a rifle club". It is not about a general suspicion, but "about structures that encourage right-wing terror even from the ranks of the police".

At a protest event in Frankfurt am Main on July 19, 2020, Baydar asked: “How can the police not find the perpetrators? The Americans found Osama bin Laden in a hole in the ground, and they want to tell me that it is too difficult to find the sender? "The advice of the police to change their telephone number is like the advice to a woman:" Don't drag Miniskirt on, then you won't be raped ”.

In a recent threatening mail to Baydar, the sender commented on media reports. They claimed that "we had sent out explicit rape threats". "Not awesome, but let's do it next". Baydar reminded the eye-catching expression "hammer" [here for "we have"] on posters of unknown origin from May 2019 in Berlin. These showed the sentence “You are awesome” in Gothic script, including portrait photos of four prominent women with a migration background: Berlin State Secretary Sawsan Chebli (SPD), journalist Dunja Hayali , comedians Idil Baydar and Enissa Amani . Baydar suspects a connection between the threatening emails and those posters. Criminal charges were inconsequential. Baydar also announced that a threatening text message to her had alluded to such a poster that was currently hanging in Berlin. She therefore assumed that the sender was in Berlin at the time. She criticized the police for not responding to her advice and for not telling her anything about the status of the investigation.

"National Socialist Offensive"

From December 2018 until his arrest in April 2019, André M., who was 32 at the time and had several criminal records, sent 87 bomb threats and 107 right-wing extremist hate mails nationwide. He mostly signed them with the compressed word “NationalSozialistischeOffensive” (abbreviated “NSO”).

In Berlin he threatened the district court, the Neukölln tax office, the Kaufhaus des Westens , the Hotel Adlon and a hit festival in the Velodrom Berlin . He sent bomb threats to Lübeck Hauptbahnhof , courts in Flensburg , Cologne , Magdeburg , Munich , Potsdam , and town halls in Augsburg , Göttingen , Kaiserslautern , Neunkirchen and Rendsburg . With it he triggered numerous police operations and evacuations of buildings. In no case were explosives found.

The pop singer Helene Fischer asked her fans at a concert in September 2018 to join her in raising their voice “against violence, against xenophobia”. Since then, André M. has sent death threats and sadistic fantasies to her, the media, and a music company. He sent further hate mail to politicians, including Federal Justice Minister Katarina Barley (SPD), Martina Renner and other members of the Bundestag from the Left, the Greens and the FDP . He wrote the emails in a fanatical, bumpy language and with spelling errors, about March 26th, 2019 to several city administrations: “You will only be in tatters, and we hope that you are alive and traumatized for the rest of your life. And we hope that many tears will flow from your families ”. He also obtained numerous files on the Internet for the manufacture of explosives and the construction of weapons.

On January 12, 2019, “NSO” wrote to the organizer of a hit festival in Berlin that the singer Helene Fischer was “on a list of a new right-wing terrorist organization consisting of several small groups belonging to the Blood & Honor network, including National Socialist Offensive, NSU 2.0 and Wehrmacht ”. He urged Helene Fischer to stop singing German songs, otherwise people would die. According to Martina Renner's statement, he also mentioned the singer 19 times in the frequent threatening emails sent to her, but no personal data from Hessian police computers. However, some threatening emails from NSU 2.0 to Renner contained personal data from Idil Baydar, Janine Wissler and Anne Helm: Therefore, there is a suspicion of a larger network of senders. "NSO" repeatedly rejected Helene Fischer obsessionally as "Slavic", spoke of the "German nationality", for whose purity they are fighting, threatened to "execute people on the street" or kill children. Some of these emails linked threats of violence with huge demands for money from Bitcoin or Monero and linked a video in which children are abused and tortured. The Rote Flora in Hamburg also received one of the many bomb threats from "NSO". They often talked about hidden explosives, remote ignition via cell phone, and decorated death scenarios. At the same time, "NSO" published calls for violence on the Darknet.

"Wehrmacht"

From October 2018 André M. was active under the user name “Stahlgewitter” in the darknet forum “Germany in the Deep Web 2”. In December 2018, media reports on the threatening emails to Seda Başay-Yıldız were discussed there. A user “Wehrmacht” commented “Where are we going to write confused stuff?” And made it clear: The Wehrmacht, “so we”, call for the murder of “this Anatolian scum”. André M. got in touch with him in the forum and soon after exchanged encrypted messages with him. In January 2019, "Wehrmacht" wrote privately to André M: "Congratulations, you have been incorporated." M. is now "part of the Wehrmacht", which also includes "NSU Zwei". Shortly afterwards, André M. spoke of his "partners" "NSU 2.0" and "Wehrmacht" in his own threatening mail. In the forum he wrote that he knew that “Wehrmacht does a lot”. He confided in him "what he can get out", and has often triggered nationwide police operations. He has been fooling the authorities for "ages". In March 2019, the "Wehrmacht" allegedly wrote to André M: "We are a superior force that they will not be able to fight against because they are technically incapable of doing so. But nice to know that the state security is now investigating, I wish the amateurs a lot of fun. "

The senders of these mails combine SS runes with child pornography and demand large sums of money in the crypto currency Bitcoin. They appear tech-savvy and often sign with several names, including "NSU 2.0", "Elysium" and "The musicians of the Staatsstreichorchester".

"Coup d'état orchestra"

From April 2018 to the end of June 2019, anonymous senders sent more than 200 threatening emails nationwide, mostly to politicians, using the signature “Staatsstreichorchester”. Since mid-January 2019, your alleged sender has been in close contact with André M. on the Darknet and discussed with him which addressees should be threatened. The mails came from the same Darknet platform as that of "NSO" and related to him. They continued after André M. was arrested in April 2019: Since then, the "coup d'état orchestra" has been demanding "immunity" for its "employee" from politicians and journalists. He called André M. by his full surname; this “did not take the necessary safety precautions”. Nevertheless, his arrest "in no way impressed". New acts of terrorism would follow.

On June 19, 2019, the “Staatsstreichorchester” threatened Cologne’s mayor Henriette Reker and the mayor Andreas Hollstein from Altena with “murder”. Both barely survived a right-wing murder attack. The mail of the same name spoke of “shots in the neck” against family members, friends and other politicians, and of the final “extinction” of Jewish and Muslim life: “And you will keep them best company when they die.” Then the senders demanded money: “We will give you Time to send us the required € 100,000,000 in Bitcoin by August 31, 2019 at the latest ". Otherwise her life will end in 2020. Finally, the greeting “Sieg Heil und Heil Hitler!” Followed. Extensive murder scenarios, open Nazi glorification and blackmail attempts are the hallmarks of this series of threats. At the latest with the emails to Reker and Hollstein, it became clear that several perpetrators are joining forces. The Berlin public prosecutor's office took over the investigation because most of the addressees lived there. Because of the different style of language, the investigators suspect a different group of authors here than in the case of "NSU 2.0", "Wehrmacht" or "NSO", whose email texts were often vulgar, short and incorrect. Andreas Hollstein referred to further death threats to town halls and local governments. He sees the Mailhetzer as the “spiritually responsible” for the real murder attempts to which he and other politicians were exposed. Henriette Reker's office also received such threatening and hate mail every week. On June 15, after the arrest of Stephan Ernst, the alleged murderer of Walter Lübcke, Reker emphasized: “The more our diversity is attacked, the more we have to defend it. We won't give up an inch. "

Since June 2019, the "Staatsstreichorchester" has referred to the murder of Lübcke more often. The senders wrote to sea rescuer and captain Carola Rackete: She was now “on the death list” as long as she did not finally let the refugees “drown in the sea”. They threatened Aiman ​​Mazyek from the Central Council of Muslims and Josef Schuster from the Central Council of Jews in Germany that they would "slaughter you and burn your houses of prayer down". Hesse's Prime Minister Volker Bouffier threatened them that he was also on the "hit list": "Walter Lübcke was not the last politician, but the first." In June 2019, the Bundestag member Canan Bayram (Greens) asked the federal government what they thought about the nationwide series of threats know; Marco Wanderwitz (CDU) referred to ongoing investigations by the Berlin public prosecutor.

From July 2019, the “Staatsstreichorchester” demanded an acquittal for André M. in nationwide emails to politicians and the media. The latter had also partly used this signature in his threatening emails. Investigators suspect that he met the sender on the same right-wing extremist platform on the Darknet through which David S. obtained a pistol and shot nine people in the 2016 racist attack in Munich .

One month before the state elections in Thuringia in 2019 (October 27), Mike Mohring , the CDU candidate for the Prime Minister's office, received a postcard. The anonymous author referred to the murder of Walter Lübcke and threatened that Mohring was "the number two to be shot in the head soon".

On October 14, 2019, a right-wing extremist called in comments on Facebook about the murder of the federal chairman of the Greens Robert Habeck, which took place on 19/20. October was planning an election campaign appearance in Bleicherode . The green parliamentary group leader Dirk Adams discovered the threat and reported it. The public prosecutor's office in Mühlhausen identified a 27-year-old from northern Thuringia as the alleged author and had his apartment searched.

After the attack in Halle (Saale) in 2019 (October 9), the "Staatsstreichorchester" sent further threatening emails relating to this attack. On October 19, 2019, he urged Mike Mohring: He should stop his election campaign with a tweet by 12:00 noon the next day, otherwise he would be "stabbed", killed with a car bomb or an assassination attempt. On October 21, 2019, Dirk Adams also received a death threat from this sender. Mohring published the threat in a video and called for hatred, violence, aggression and death threats to be left no room in Thuringia, but rather to stand together across parties. The left-wing country leader Susanne Hennig-Wellsow , the SPD top candidate Wolfgang Tiefensee and the incumbent Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow declared their solidarity. Ramelow, for his part, was physically assaulted during the election campaign.

On April 20, 2020 “Staatsstreichorchester” demanded an acquittal for André M. in an email to the Tagesspiegel and threatened attacks such as those in “Kassel, Halle, Hanau”. The alleged friend was referring to the murder of Walter Lübcke, the attack in Halle (Saale) on October 9, 2019 and the 2020 attack in Hanau (February 19). On the same day, this sender also requested an e-mail from co-plaintiff Martina Renner to give André M an “impeccable acquittal”; otherwise “the population will feel the consequences”. On April 21, 2020, when the criminal proceedings against André M. began, the Berlin-Moabit regional court received a fax with the signature "NSU 2.0". The sender named the judge, claimed "numerous explosives" in the courthouse and threatened that the " lying press " present would "drown in their own blood in front of the hall". He spoke of an "HVT" (main hearing). This is the abbreviation used by police officers, lawyers and judicial officers. The signature "Heil Hitler, NSU 2.0" also contains the more recent threatening emails from July 2020.

The building was evacuated and searched, but no bombs were found. Then senior public prosecutor Eva-Maria Tombrink read out the indictment. Another threatening email from the same sender arrived at the court in the afternoon. The latter continued to send numerous hate mails with signatures such as "NSU 2.0", "Wehrmacht" and "The musicians of the Staatsstreichorchester".

On May 19, 2020, the public prosecutor received a threatening mail from "NSU 2.0", sent from an email address of the Russian provider Yandex. The sender gave the public prosecutor's file number and knew that the addressee would have "representation until September 3, 2020". On May 21, he wrote to the responsible investigator at the Berlin State Criminal Police Office, named the correct specialist report and quoted M's date of birth. All three emails showed detailed expertise from the Berlin judiciary and police. Therefore involved state officials as well as connections between André Ms supporters and the senders of the threatening mails "NSU 2.0" in Hessen are suspected.

"Wolfszeit 2.0"

On March 5, 2020, the constituency office of Katina Schubert, the chairman of the Berlin Left Party, received a death threat by email entitled “Wolfszeit 2.0”. It said that she would be “stabbed” because she “campaigns for dirty asylum seekers”. It was the third death threat of its kind to her. Schubert filed a criminal complaint and emphasized that she would not be intimidated, but could not simply ignore the threats after all right-wing terrorist attacks.

At the beginning of March 2020 a sender with the wolf symbol wrote to the European parliamentarian of the Greens Erik Marquardt: “We will find you, we will slaughter you. Get out of there with your helpers from Greece ! ”It was“ wolf time ”. Marquardt had previously reported critically about the inhumane conditions in the Moria refugee camp and other refugee camps on the Greek island of Lesbos and has been threatened more often since then. The presumably same sender wrote to Christiane Schneider ( Die Linke Hamburg ) that she was "officially released for hunting"; they will be "slaughtered". This email also ended with "Is Wolf Time". All three addressees are publicly committed to helping refugees. Schubert therefore assessed the emails as a targeted right-wing campaign against this commitment and suspected that other refugee helpers were receiving such threats.

According to a spokesman for the Berlin police, these e-mails are linguistically and in terms of content similar to those of “Staatsstreichorchester”, “Wehrmacht” or “NSO”. A special investigation group at the state security had been set up. A connection with an unexplained right-wing extremist series of attacks in Berlin-Neukölln is suspected.

This series of threats was directed against politicians and journalists. The signature "Ist Wolfzeit" apparently referred to the book titles of the same name and the film " Wolfzeit " (2003), which use the expression to denote an age of apocalyptic violence and subversion and which are popular with the Nazis. "Luebcke 2019", that is, the reference to the murder of the Kassel District President Walter Lübcke (CDU) on June 2, 2019, appeared as an e-mail address.

The neo-Nazi Heinz Lembke , who had set up extensive weapons depots, wrote in 1981, shortly before his death, “It's the time of the wolves”. Like him, many right-wing terrorists saw themselves as a "lone wolf" who can offer leaderless resistance from anywhere at any time . State authorities played down this type of offender for a long time as "old unteachable", as "gun fool" or "weirdo".

Classifications

From July 2020, the target group and motifs of “NSU 2.0” became clear. According to Anne Helm, the senders use a clear Nazi language and very explicitly pronounce a death sentence on the recipient. It was not by chance that they chose women who have long been threatened as anti-fascist activists. The emails to her contained "a number of sexist insults, the last one including rape fantasies ". Misogyny is clearly one of the perpetrators' motives. They seem to have received public attention. - Because the threatening emails to Janine Wissler also contained sexist insults, the journalist Ludger Fittkau ( Deutschlandfunk ) confirmed the highly misogynistic motives.

According to Vanessa Fischer ( Neues Deutschland ) "NSU 2.0" threatens above all women who fight against right-wing extremism and racism. The right-wing extremist assassins in the attack in Halle (Saale) in 2019 , in the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch in 2019 and in the attack in Toronto in 2018 had acted out of misogyny. The Federal Prosecutor apparently misjudges the dangerous connection between right-wing radicalism and anti-feminism . The mail senders should be described as a right-wing extremist and anti-feminist terror network.

The political scientist Alexandra Kurth from Giessen also emphasizes: “Dealing with gender issues is a very important part of the right-wing extremist worldview. So I am not surprised that women in particular received the threatening letters. ”This aspect of right-wing extremism is seldom paid attention to in public. The Kassel political scientist Wolfgang Schroeder confirms: “Everything that goes in the direction of a self-confident femininity, a self-confident positioning of women, is from the point of view of right-wing extremism and populism an affront to their world and social order. Self-confident women in public life, left- or liberal-democratically oriented, should be sanctioned from the worldview of these people. This is why this approach has the character of a systematic intimidation campaign that calls for resolute resistance from the rule of law and liberal civil society. "

The editor Matthias Dobrinski ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ) sees a pattern in the selection of victims, despite the increasingly wide distribution of addressees: "Woman, in public somehow profiled as left or at least against the right, with a history of migration". The more of these criteria apply, the more likely such a person will be insulted and threatened. The message is always: "We are continuing the murderous work of the terrorists of the 'National Socialist Underground'".

Those affected, who have been threatened by right-wing extremists for decades because of their political work, referred to the new quality: The current threatening emails contain information that is not publicly available, possibly from police officers, and fall at a time of serious terrorist killings to which they refer positively. Volker Beck said: “The threatening e-mails from 'NSU2.0', the aggressive potential of the hygiene and Hildmann demos after the murders in Halle, Hanau and Walter Lübcke show that the threat level has reached a steady, permanent high. It has never been like this! ”The state must act more consistently against this. Private data of threatened persons should no longer appear in advertisements, company registers and in the imprint of websites. It is about the protection of “every activist, every pastor, every participant in the demo, every journalist.” One of those affected said: “Something is going wrong in our country. These people want to silence us. They want us to give this land to them. They want to spread fear and horror. ”She hopes that nobody will withdraw because of this, but that everyone will continue to stand up for a democratic Germany. Jutta Ditfurth pointed to the continuity of the attacks since the 1980s, physical and almost daily attacks on her lately. At first it is an emotional shock, "when a person you don't even know describes in detail how he wants to murder you". In the meantime she has learned to deal with it rationally: “I'm cool now, it doesn't affect me anymore.” She doesn't let that intimidate her. But the spread of right-wing extremist structures are cause for concern. Some of it is similar to the rise of National Socialism in the Weimar Republic , albeit more slowly. Therefore one has to tirelessly point out the small changes in the social discourse climate.

According to Eike Sanders , the perpetrators specifically threaten women who embody an opening in society, who could bring about this and who hold roles "that the patriarchal and racist system does not allow them ". The perpetrators see them as “a particular threat to white Germany”. The binary gender order with the order of men over women is part of the right worldview. Therefore, right-wing extremists rejected ambiguous, diverse and flowing gender categories, transformed feminism into a threatening, conspiracy-ideological enemy image and ascribed far more power to it than it had. Right-wing extremism and anti-feminism combine megalomania, paranoia and the idea of ​​male self-sacrifice. Anti-feminism, anti-Semitism and racism are common, mutually reinforcing cores of threatening emails and right-wing terrorist attacks. Nevertheless, such e-mails are not classified as violence against women in the crime statistics, and right-wing extremist offenders do not have their frequent history of domestic or sexual violence. The threats from “NSU 2.0” are all the more dangerous because feminism and “ gender mainstreaming ” have meanwhile become the political enemy of all right-wingers and parts of the conservatives. The threatening mail writers therefore felt "in their masculinity as warriors and heroes called to restore a supposedly natural state" and to carry out an imagined popular will.

The murder of Walter Lübcke was also preceded by threatening letters. Some of the threatening mail recipients were attacked directly afterwards. Bullet holes were found in the citizens' office of Member of the Bundestag Karamba Diaby in Halle / Saale. Some local politicians withdrew because of such threats. BKA boss Holger Münch therefore spoke of a “democratic endangering” development.

Annette Ramelsberger ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ) compares the suspected cases in the Hesse police with the nationwide increase in right-wing extremist officials in state authorities. For example, police officers referred positively to NSU perpetrators, illegally hoarded ammunition, lawyers also drew up death lists with politicians who had to be eliminated on "Day X", Bundeswehr officers illegally obtained weapons and planned terrorist attacks disguised as asylum seekers (see Terrorist Investigations against Bundeswehr Soldiers 2017 ). This “right undercurrent” has become stronger and stronger in recent years. Because parliaments are now also talking about “popular death” and “population exchange”, those who are prepared to use violence feel that they have been heard, understood and legitimized to “defend themselves” against it with armed violence.

Suspects

Frankfurt am Main

On August 2, 2018, between 2:00 p.m. and 2:15 p.m., an unknown police officer called up the personal data and registration address of the family of Seda Başay-Yıldız at the 1st Frankfurt police station without an official reason via a police computer. Her address was locked in publicly accessible registers and only accessible to the police. A police officer from the police station was logged into the computer at the time. She denied the query. This could not be proven to her, as it was customary to remain logged in to leave the PC to others. From 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. that day, 14 officers were assigned to her duty group. When asked, they all denied having anything to do with the query or having noticed it. On September 11, 2018, the officer's workplace, locker and house were searched and her mobile phone was seized. A WhatsApp chat group called “Itiotentreff” was found, in which she and five other Hessian police officers had sent a total of 102 pictures, caricatures and messages with right-wing extremist tendencies. The chat group included four police officers from the 1st Frankfurt Revier, a police officer in Central Hesse and a private person. From October 2015 to October 2016 they sent each other Nazi symbols , including swastikas and pictures of Adolf Hitler , as well as inhuman caricatures and pictures of refugees and the disabled. They joked about Jews and people with Down syndrome . One picture showed Hitler in front of a smoking chimney; at the lower edge of the picture read: "The bigger the Jew, the warmer the booth". Further pictures showed concentration camp prisoners, dark-skinned people and the drowned Syrian refugee boy Alan Kurdi with the caption “Whoever finds, may keep it”. The Frankfurt public prosecutor's office later classified 40 of these chat posts as relevant under criminal law.

The police officers involved were all around 30 years old in 2018 and did not attract attention in terms of disciplinary law or through connections to right-wing organizations. One was intended for the higher service and should study at the leadership academy of the German police, two others should be honored for resuscitation. Their workplaces and homes were searched on October 25 and early December 2018. They have been suspended from duty and are under investigation for incitement to hatred and the use of marks from unconstitutional organizations . It remained unclear whether one or more of them had sent the threatening fax or passed on the lawyer's requested data to third parties. The investigators checked whether they had business dealings with the lawyer for the NSU victims. According to their colleagues and superiors, they had behaved impeccably on the job and were not noticed by right-wing slogans or racist behavior. The suspended police officers did not provide any information or clarify the situation.

A police officer from Alsfeld is said to have participated in the exchange of right-wing extremist messages . He was suspended as a precaution in March 2019 for the duration of the investigation.

On February 6, 2020, the police searched the apartments and offices of three other Frankfurt police officers as a result of the internal investigation into "NSU 2.0". They too were suspended from duty because of right-wing extremist irregularities. Until then, the suspicion of the originally suspended police officers of the chat group persisted.

On August 6, 2020, the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office announced in the legal committee of the Hessian state parliament: Only one of the officers of the 1st police station was further suspected of illegally requesting personal information about Basay-Yildiz and her family. He has been listed as a suspect since 2019 because of threats and sedition. The suspicion against the policewoman who was logged in during the interrogation was not confirmed. The officers who were on duty in Wiesbaden police stations to obtain personal information about Wissler and Baydar would not continue to be listed as suspects.

Kirtorf

On October 25, 2018, investigators searched the apartments of the five police officers in the chat group in Darmstadt , Frankfurt, Kirtorf and Wetter . After identifying a sixth police officer as a chat member, they also searched his apartment in Kirtorf on December 12, 2018. They found a “museum-like” room with Wehrmacht and SS uniforms, swastika flags, posters, medals and badges from the Nazi era . The two Kirtorf officials are brothers and are said to have shouted right-wing extremist slogans at a fair in Central Hesse in November 2017. The older of the two brothers hung a black, white and red imperial flag from his house at major sporting events . He appeared on his Facebook profile as a supporter of the AfD and the neo-Nazi portal “Traditionsbuchreihe”, which reports the deaths of former SS veterans as “comrades” and reports the death of a Nazi war criminal as murder. The younger brother kept congratulating the active neo-Nazi Glenn E. on his birthday. Contacts of the brothers to the local neo-Nazi scene around the comradeship “Berserker Kirtorf” and the right-wing rock band “Gegenenschlag” could not be proven. The long-time Mayor of Kirtorf, Ulrich Künz (CDU), defended them as "nice fellows, personable, very integrated in clubs and associations".

In the house of the older of the two brothers, the investigators also found weapons, rifle and pistol ammunition that required a license. On January 17 and 18, 2019, 50 Frankfurt investigators searched their apartments again. The younger is said to have sent the older allegedly seditious messages on his mobile phone. As a result, an investigation was initiated against both of them for violating the Weapons Act and using symbols of unconstitutional organizations. In addition to ammunition, storage media were also seized in order to clarify possible connections to the Frankfurt chat group and right-wing extremist circles. A total of four officials living in Romrod and Kirtorf were investigated for using symbols of unconstitutional organizations and inciting people. At least one of the four should belong to the Reich Citizens Movement.

On June 25, 2019, the investigators provisionally arrested one of the six suspended police officers from the 1st Frankfurt police station. They suspected him of sending the first threatening faxes to Seda Başay-Yıldız. His living quarters in Kirtorf and Frankfurt were searched again. However, there was no sufficient reason for detention, so the man was released again. He had sent 18 of the 40 criminally relevant chat posts from the “Itiotentreff” group. He is still considered the suspect sender of the first threatening letters.

Wiesbaden

On February 25, 2020, the LKA found the police officer who was logged into the police computer from which Janine Wissler's registration data mentioned in the threatening letters had been queried. It belonged to the 3rd district of the police headquarters in West Hesse, located in the Europaviertel Wiesbaden. Wissler's home address and cell phone number were retrieved from an official directory under his personal identification number. According to the LKA, the officer was questioned on the same day. He claimed that he had no use for the name Wissler and did not know anything about the query on his computer. He stated that a colleague may have used his ID. Because the contrary could not be proven, the suspect is officially listed as a "witness". A connection to the right-wing extremist chat group in the Frankfurt police station could not be determined. However, in this case, the official's private data carriers did not appear to have been searched.

More Hessian police officers

In the course of the investigation into "NSU 2.0", further right-wing extremist suspected cases in the Hesse police force became known. In 2016, a police service group leader in Mühlheim am Main shared three pictures with right-wing extremist messages in an internal chat group. One showed a pensioner holding a baking sheet with swastika-shaped biscuits at the camera. "Grandma baked cookies, they just turned a little brown," it read below. The second picture showed three dark-skinned men in Wehrmacht uniforms with the text "Bundeswer 2020". On Christmas Eve 2016, the officer sent a picture that showed an Iron Cross decorated with fir branches and a black, white and red ribbon as a “German Christmas greeting”. The public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt closed the investigation in November 2019 because they did not see sufficient suspicion of sedition and use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations. The accused only showed the swastika to a small closed chat group and could not accept or know that the picture could be left to third parties. Thus the element of dissemination or public use of the symbol is not met. The second picture is covered by the freedom of opinion as a "tastefully questionable criticism of a ... feared personnel development of the Bundeswehr." There is no incitement to hatred, insults, malicious scorn or defamation of a certain population group. The third picture does not show a criminal symbol. The police headquarters in Southeast Hesse left it open whether an interrupted disciplinary procedure against the officer would be continued after the acquittal.

In 2016, a police officer in Dieburg (South Hesse) passed on information from police databases to a woman who was a member of the neo-Nazi group "Aryans" for no official reason. She had previously asked him in a joint chat to find her information on two neo-Nazis. This case became known in February 2019. The district court of Dieburg sentenced the officer to a fine in March 2019 for violating official secrets. He had assured that he was not right-wing extremist, but wanted to do his former girlfriend a favor and not ask about her motives.

On January 27, 2019, the international Holocaust Remembrance Day , four police officers hung up the federal flag and the state service flag of Hesse upside down in front of the police station in Schlüchtern . With this, right-wing extremists and “Reich citizens” often symbolically show their contempt for this state. However, the investigation into the flipped flags was discontinued at the end of March 2019, as it was believed to have been an oversight.

In December 2019, after house searches, two officers from the police headquarters in West Hesse and East Hesse were suspended from duty because they were supposed to be close to the “Reich citizens”. Officials at the Southeast Hesse police headquarters are said to have exchanged four pictures with right-wing extremist content in a closed WhatsApp group in 2016. A 21-year-old police inspector candidate was arrested who was allegedly involved in a brawl with xenophobic chants. He resigned voluntarily.

Further incidents became known by December 13, 2019, including racist remarks at a folk festival, the collection of neo-Nazi votions and right-wing extremist chat groups. Until then, the LKA Hessen had been investigating 38 Hessian police officers for right-wing extremist activities or taking disciplinary action against them. At times, the number of suspected cases in the Hessian police rose to more than 70.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, one of the six police officers of the Frankfurt Whatsapp group was released by August 2020. From another chat group with 17 suspects who had exchanged racist content, twelve police officers remained suspended. The remaining ten were allowed to work in the police again. This was the result of the evaluation of the material that had been seized during searches in February 2020. Except for five of the other cases, the initial suspicion was not confirmed or was cleared, so that the investigation ended and the temporarily suspended officers were reintegrated into the service. A Hessian police officer was dismissed at his own request, and two others were temporarily suspended from duty because of sedition or xenophobic insults. According to the Interior Minister Peter Beuth, a total of 15 Hessian police officers were suspended from work during the investigation into "NSU 2.0", three of them at the Frankfurt police headquarters. The reasons were crimes such as fraud, theft, child pornography, bodily harm, violation of official secrets or hate speech.

André M. and accomplices

André M. also threatened an acquaintance from Saxony-Anhalt in the spring of 2019 and named her name in a threatening mail to a politician. The police were able to identify him as the likely sender of the "NSO" threats. He was arrested in his home town of Halstenbek in early April 2019 . He had already attracted attention as a schoolboy with acts of violence, dropped out of school at the age of 15, stabbed car tires, started fires, experimented with explosives and attacked a neighbor with a knife. Even as a teenager, he is said to have had a preference for right-wing rock and lost friends because of right-wing extremist statements. In one picture he was posing in front of a swastika flag. In the fall of 2007, he and a friend were considering an attack on a local apple festival and used them to get ingredients for explosives. Both were acquitted of the allegation to commit murder for lack of evidence and convicted of other crimes. André M. has a criminal record for assault, insult, arson, property damage, an explosives offense and the publication of instructions for building bombs. He spent five years in a psychiatric hospital, and later served several prison terms through October 2018. After that he was unemployed, socially isolated and lived with his parents again. He is said to have decorated his room with swastika flags. In 2017 he was active under the alias "Sturmsoldat", from 2018 as "Sturmwehr" in the darknet forum "Germany in DeepWeb". Until this platform was banned, attacks were planned and weapons were traded there. André M. is said to have repeatedly called for terror against police officers, judges and politicians in chats. He downloaded instructions for building bombs and firearms from the Internet, posed in photographs with assault rifles and dealt with the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch . He also used the name "Stahlgewitter" in that Darknet forum. In chats with like-minded people he exchanged ideas about weapons, drugs and explosives. In November 2018 he wrote: “I am primarily looking for ammunition in the 7.65mm Browning caliber. And I'm looking for firearms of various kinds for the purpose of collecting. "

The trial against André M. began on April 21, 2020. The prosecution classifies him as right-wing extremist and ready for terrorism, possibly also as mentally disturbed. He had planned the “threat of acts of violence against state institutions, representatives of capitalism and supporters of the state order” in order to act out his “hatred of people”, his “fantasies of the annihilation of the capitalist system in favor of a national socialist order” and to publicize his need for attention to satisfy. He wanted to force reactions to his threats, unsettle recipients and the population, later implement the announced attacks and in the process kill or seriously injure numerous random accidental victims. He is said to have discussed some bomb threats with the hitherto unknown friend.

In the process, André M's culpability should be clarified. Experts previously attested him to have a personality disorder. The co-plaintiff Martina Renner expects clarification about accomplices, because "NSO" and "Staatsstreichorchester" also named "NSU 2.0" as part of their network in their letters. André M. was silent about the authors of these mails.

Berlin

At the beginning of February 2020, the apartment and workplace of a police officer from Hesse were searched in Berlin. He, too, is suspected of inciting the people and using symbols of unconstitutional organizations. He has been given a forced leave and disciplinary proceedings have been initiated against him. The investigators did not disclose where he was deployed in Hesse and what he had made suspicious of.

Suspicions of informers from the Berlin judiciary and police arose primarily from data contained in some threatening emails against the regional court Moabit, Anne Helm and Martina Renner, and from incidents during the investigations into the long-term right-wing extremist series of threats and attacks in Berlin-Neukölln . This has not yet been clarified, although the main suspects, two Neukölln neo-Nazis, are known and are being observed. In 2016, a Neukölln AfD police officer provided current police information about the attack on the Berlin Christmas market at the Memorial Church via a joint chat group . The Neukölln neo-Nazi Tilo Paulenz also belonged to the group. In 2017, an employee of the “right-wing investigation group”, which also investigated the Neukölln attacks, took part in a racist attack on a refugee from Afghanistan. Another Berlin police officer himself had sent threatening letters to left-wing activists. In 2018, an arson attack on the house of left-wing party politician Ferat Kocak was not prevented, although the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution had watched the main suspects Sebastian Thom and Tilo Paulenz for weeks as they spied out Kocak's address. A few days later, security officials observed a meeting between Thom and a Berlin LKA police officer. Because he could not be identified beyond doubt, the investigation was closed. At the beginning of August 2020, two public prosecutors entrusted with the Neukölln investigations were transferred to a sentence because one (Matthias Fenner) expressed sympathy with Paulenz in a chat, the other had read the chat log in the investigation files but did not report it. In mid-August, the Berlin data protection officer Maja Smoltczyk announced that police officers had illegally requested data from two victims of the Neukölln attack series and the Berlin police refused to clear up the data requests. Therefore, the scouted out personal data in threatening emails to Anne Helm could come from the Neukölln Nazi scene as well as from the Berlin police.

On March 5, 2019, the same day as in the 3rd police station in Wiesbaden, strangers asked for personal data of the artist İdil Baydar from a Berlin police computer without any official reason being apparent. Shortly afterwards Baydar received threatening letters from "NSU 2.0". The data protection officer for Berlin Maja Smoltczyk then had a criminal complaint from her authority against the alleged perpetrator examined.

Hamburg

On June 15, 2020, a satirical commentary by Hengameh Yaghoobi on the German police appeared in the taz . On the same day, the Hamburg police carried out data inquiries about her; it was initially unclear whether there was a legitimate police reason for this. In July her name appeared in a threatening letter from "NSU 2.0".

Bavaria

In March 2020, the police in Bavaria arrested a 54-year-old alternative practitioner who is said to have sent threatening letters to a local politician and to a mosque, sometimes with a live cartridge, and who has long had a “right-wing sentiment”.

On July 24, 2020, the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office in Landshut had a 63-year-old former Bavarian police officer and his 55-year-old wife temporarily arrested. Your data carriers have been confiscated and analyzed. However, there was not enough evidence to issue an arrest warrant, so they were released the following day. The couple was initially accused of sending six e-mails with the identifier "NSU 2.0" from July 21, 2020. He was later assigned twelve letters with insulting, seditious and threatening content. The couple is classified as a "free rider", not as the originator of the entire series of threats. Shortly after the couple's house was searched, new emails were sent from the Yandex account.

The ex-police officer Hermann S. called himself “Eugen Prinz” on the internet and was probably referring to Eugen von Savoyen . "Prinz Eugen" is a popular pseudonym among right-wing extremists. The 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen", which committed numerous war crimes in Yugoslavia, was named after him. "Eugen Prinz" was also the name of the sender of the threatening emails from July 22nd, 2020 to several Green politicians. Although these were also signed with "NSU 2.0", they differed from earlier threatening emails with this signature. There was no personal information about the threatened. The police officer denies having sent the threatening emails; the email address does not belong to him. He claims an intrigue: someone else wants to cast suspicion on him. According to investigators, there are currently no indications that these emails had to do with the retrieval of personal data from police computers.

During the house search in Landshut, the investigators also found two hidden pistols and a pump gun, batons and pepper sprays. S. claimed that the weapons were heirlooms that he had just failed to register. He is a marksman and has a gun ownership card . The Munich Public Prosecutor's Office initiated proceedings against him for illegal possession of weapons. No contacts between the couple and the suspicious Frankfurt police officers have yet been found.

Hermann S. was a civil servant at the Landshut police station until 2004 and has close contacts with the New Right . He has been known as the author of the anti-Islam portal PI News since 2017 and also writes for another right-wing portal. In October 2015, S. claimed on the internet blog “klartext.la” of a Landshut CSU city council that there was a threat of a wave of rape by refugees in Germany. In a letter to the editor from March 2017, he berated Deniz Yücel as a journalist with no decency or character. Yücel had recently been illegally imprisoned in Turkey and is one of those threatened by "NSU 2.0". In August 2018 S. agitated against “instinct-driven barbarians among the refugees”. In May 2019, S. visited the “1. Conference of the Free Media ”in the Bundestag , to which the AfD parliamentary group had invited. Several new right and right-wing extremists and media observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution took part. The Landshut public prosecutor's office has been investigating S. since 2017 for sedition, insult, data protection violation and violation of the confidentiality of the word. All proceedings were discontinued. At the end of July 2020, the Bavarian government initiated disciplinary proceedings against the police officer.

Hermann S. has been publishing hundreds of racist texts online for years. Until 2015 he wrote under real names on the website of the Landshut CSU city councilor Rudolph Schnur. Since a critical report in the Landshuter Zeitung about it, Schnur has outsourced the "Immigration" section. Since then, Hermann S. has been writing on zuwanderung.net and PI News as "Eugen Prinz". PI-News confirmed the identity of this author with the Landshut police officer and started a donation campaign for him. His pseudonym is popular with far-right Islamophobes because Prince Eugene had triumphed against the Ottoman troops in the Great Turkish War . Following on from this, S. interprets Muslim migrants and refugees as an alleged threat to the Germans, predicts racial unrest, claims a “genocide against the white population” in South Africa and asks: “Are the refugees also the epidemics?” Article on the COVID-19 pandemic he titled it with “virus dictatorship”, “Merkel's latest anti-Germany plan” or “After Corona: Germany first!” PI-News often denounces refugee workers and publishes their personal data and addresses. In 2015 an anonymous author (possibly Hermann S.) exposed such a teacher from Deggendorf to a shit storm. S. filed a complaint against the person concerned at the time. Until 2017, S. had good contacts with the CSU and gave a lecture on an allegedly significant increase in crime due to immigration. He is currently supported by the AfD member of the Bundestag Petr Bystron , who trained with South African racists on firearms.

Investigations

August 2018 to July 2020

In August 2018, the LKA Hessen forwarded Seda Başay-Yıldız's criminal complaint to the Frankfurt Police Headquarters. This immediately initiated internal investigations, had offices and private rooms of the five Frankfurt police officers searched and confiscated their telephones and computers. In December 2018, the Frankfurt police chief Gerhard Bereswill wanted to campaign for their release if the suspicion of an exchange of right-wing extremist content was confirmed.

The Frankfurt police informed the LKA about the investigation, but for four months did not mention that the threatening fax might have come from within their own ranks. Although the LKA would then have been responsible, State Police President Udo Münch - according to his own statements without consulting Interior Minister Peter Beuth - had the Frankfurt police investigate further. Beuth had known of the criminal complaint since August 6, 2018 and of the suspicious chats of the Frankfurt officials since September 28, 2018, but also did not inform the LKA, allegedly in order not to endanger the investigation. It was not until the press reports from December 2018 that Münch informed the LKA about the specific suspicion against Frankfurt officials. Thereupon this pulled the case and found in Kirtorf, the place of residence of one of the suspicious officers, a right-wing extremist environment and indications that other Hessian police officers could be involved in these structures. Politicians in the Hessian Interior Committee sharply criticized the late handover to the LKA.

On December 14, 2018, Beuth set up a team of investigators at the LKA on the original case of the threatened fax. The LKA stated that according to the decree, it was obliged to take over investigations if a procedure could damage the reputation of the Hessian police. Internally, this was seen as an indication of increasing concerns about cover-ups. On December 19, 2018, Beuth rejected the allegations and emphasized that the authorities had "immediately followed up with vigor". There are currently no indications of a “ right-wing network ” in the Hessian police. By then, however, three other Hessian police officers with right-wing extremist ideas and behavior had been noticed there. These cases should first be examined internally by the police.

Until February 2019, the investigators assumed that the letters to Seda Başay-Yıldız signed with "NSU 2.0" came from the police themselves, because the retrieval of their personal data in the 1st Frankfurt district was the only trace and some police officers there from the right-wing extremists should have known their colleagues. As of February 2019, the LKA Hessen increased the “Special Structural Organization” (BAO) for right-wing extremist police officers in Hessen to 60 officers. This BAO Winter should clear up all further cases.

On December 13, 2019, the Frankfurt public prosecutor said: Many previous proceedings have been completed or are well advanced. The number of other accused changes constantly depending on the state of the investigation. The specially appointed BAO questioned witnesses and evaluated material in order to find the originator of the threatening letters "NSU 2.0". Hesse's Ministry of the Interior announced that six of the 38 suspected police officers had been released and that a seventh would be released soon. In 17 cases, the criminal charge was not confirmed. An officer had a fatal accident. The BAO is currently still processing 13 suspected cases. In 2020, 60 officials at times followed up on the suspected cases in a working group "AG 21" of the LKA Hessen. By July 2020, more suspicious police officers were removed from service and some proceedings were dropped.

Use of a special investigator

On July 9, 2020, Peter Beuth stated that he had learned about the data query on Janine Wissler from February 2020 from the press. The LKA Hessen did not inform him about it; that is "completely unacceptable". For the first time he admitted that a right-wing extremist network in the Hesse police force was possible. He appointed the criminal director Hanspeter Mener , who worked at the Frankfurt am Main police headquarters, as a special investigator. This should lead the further investigation and report directly to the state police president.

But on March 5, 2020, the LKA had the state police headquarters, according to internal police notes, at a video conference about an "unauthorized data request [...] in the police headquarters in West Hesse", which concerned Janine Wissler. The colleagues involved in the district were immediately questioned. He stated that he did not know Ms. Wissler and could not remember the query. These protocol notes were not passed on to Peter Beuth. The state police chief wanted to clarify the reasons for this internally. At the same time, detailed information on the investigation into the Wissler case was made available to the press. That is why LKA President Sabine Thurau filed a criminal complaint against unknown persons for breach of official secrecy.

Beuth's appointment of a special investigator was criticized as a sign of a rift between him and Sabine Thurau: With this he denied the competence of a specialist authority and gave the author of the threatening letters maximum attention. The special investigator Hanspeter Mener is known to be stubborn, but can only hope for a mistake by the author of the letter. It was also criticized that since August 2018 it has not been clarified who had carried out the first data query about the recipient of the threatening emails and who else had access to the police computers. The fact that Beuth is now having the query mechanisms in police information systems checked again suggests that this has not yet been done. Beuth distracted from this by accusing the LKA and assigning a special investigator to him. That weakens the LKA and endangers the success of the investigation. Beuth himself must take responsibility for the lack of clarification.

Seda Başay-Yıldız sharply criticized Beuth on July 10, 2020: Unlike Sabine Thurau, who had granted police personal protection to her family , he had never contacted her or her family personally. Beuth should not torpedo the important work of the LKA to clear up structural problems for political reasons. The fact that he only considers a special investigator to be necessary when threatening politicians is "pure activism" and gives her the feeling of being a second class person.

Resignation of the police chief

On July 14, 2020, Hesse’s police chief Udo Münch resigned. According to Peter Beuth, he was already informed in March 2020 about the inadmissible data query in the West Hesse police headquarters, but did not immediately report this to Beuth. So far, no causal connection between the queries and the threatening mail has been determined. The rules for police queries of personal data would be tightened because of the incidents. He also only found out about the Baydar case on July 8, 2020. The Interior Ministry was either not informed at all or “at least not properly” about the further unauthorized query about Baydar in March 2019. That should be cleared up quickly.

However, the Hessian investigative authorities were not even aware of the threatening emails against Idil Baydar in March 2019, so they could not report it to the Ministry of the Interior. According to the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor's Office, criminal charges had been received from Idil Baydar in Berlin, so that the proceedings were conducted there. It was only handed over to Frankfurt in July 2020 because of the possible links to the Hessian threatening letter affair, as were the proceedings relating to Anne Helm and Martina Renner. Then one came across the query from March 2019 on Baydar.

On July 17, 2020, Beuth announced that special investigator Hanspeter Mener would receive extensive powers, be able to easily access additional staff and use the entire IT expertise of the police and external partners. He will be integrated into the Hessian Extremism and Terrorism Defense Center and can use the network there between the police, the protection of the constitution and the judiciary for his investigations. Protection and individual care of threatened people have top priority.

Media comments criticized: Beuth did not put enough pressure on the Hesse police in 2018 to investigate the case, and denied a right-wing radical network in the Hessian police for too long. He reacted too indecisively to the first threatening emails from "NSU 2.0", so that this series was neither stopped nor renewed access to personal data by allegedly right-wing police officers was prevented. This has increased the distrust of police officers. The broader problem, however, is the increase in right-wing extremism on the Internet , especially lists of enemies and death threats to people with a migration background, anti-fascists, journalists and politicians, often women. Methodically, it is about intimidating or silencing people. The frequently discontinued investigations are not understandable for those affected. Here it should be checked whether stricter laws, more staff or both are necessary for the success of the investigation. The better victim care promised by Beuth must be a matter of course and not only apply to the victims of "NSU 2.0".

Demands for nationwide investigation

Since July 10, 2020, various federal politicians and lawyers have asked the Federal Attorney General (GBA) to take over the investigation. Bernd Riexinger from the Federal Executive of the Left Party emphasized that the death threats not only affected Hesse, but also directly attacked democracy and state institutions nationwide. In addition, there is "considerable justified mistrust of the leadership of the LKA in Hesse and Berlin, who have so far not had any success in prosecuting and breaking right-wing networks in the police". Martina Renner also asked the GBA to take over the investigation. According to her impression, "the communication, the exchange of information and the investigation strategy between the LKA Hessen, the LKA Berlin and the BKA are not really coordinated". The investigators could therefore pay too little attention to “cross-references to other complexes”, for example to the threatening letters signed “National Socialist Offensive” and “State Streichorchester” and to the right-wing extremist series of attacks and threats in Berlin-Neukölln that has been going on for years. The GBA would be responsible, since the perpetrators not only attacked private individuals, but "the state in its institutions", such as the Berlin district court and elected representatives. The FDP domestic politician Konstantin Kuhle supported the demand. According to information from July 20, 2020, the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office submitted the investigation into the “NSU 2.0” threats to the GBA “to examine a takeover”. However, the Federal Prosecutor's Office has not yet seen sufficient evidence for the formation of a terrorist organization that would require its investigation under Section 129a .

The FDP internal politician Benjamin Strasser calls for a nationwide special investigator who is independent of police and constitutional protection authorities. This should determine cross-border networks of right-wing extremist police officers on duty and the current activities of former right-wing extremist police officers who have been dismissed. Strasser referred to examples such as the police officers in the unit of the NSU murder victim Michèle Kiesewetter , who were members of the Ku Klux Klan , racist statements from the downtown district in Stuttgart, and police officers in the right-wing extremist prepper group " Nordkreuz ", who were allegedly responsible for their lists of enemies Had tapped registration data from police computers.

However, the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office saw no evidence until July 15, 2020 that the querying person in the cases of Başay-Yıldız, Wissler and Baydar was identical to the sender of the threatening emails and that these were sent from a police station. It cannot be ruled out that the data retrieved was passed on to the sender or sender of the threatening mail. A connection with threatening emails from André M.'s environment is also suspected. Since different police officers were active in each of the three Hessian police stations for the data queries, it is assumed that several spied on the data that were later used for threatening letters from the "NSU 2.0".

By July 2020, LKA President Sabine Thurau also informally asked the GBA to take over the case. Afterwards, the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor Albrecht Schreiber followed suit. However, on July 7, 2020, his authority only sent the GBA three of the most recent threatening emails, not the full results of the investigation since 2018. This is another reason why the Federal Prosecutor's Office did not consider the legal requirements for their takeover to be fulfilled and stated: It is not for threats or insults responsible, but only in the event of acts of violence or when a group acts. Despite the three queries in three different Hessian police stations, the addresses and private data retrieved there could also have been researched in other ways. Therefore, in addition to the “AG 21” in Hesse, a unit called “Triangel” in Berlin and the BKA's security group for members of the Bundestag investigate the right-wing threatening emails independently of one another.

Interview in the interior committee

On July 21, 2020, the Interior Committee of the Hessian State Parliament asked Interior Minister Peter Beuth, Frankfurt's Chief Public Prosecutor Albrecht Schreiber and Police President Roland Ullmann about the status of the investigation. According to Beuth, investigators had known 69 threatening letters from “NSU 2.0” by then, many with death threats. Other of these mails informed other recipients, such as some newspaper editors. The data of Seda Başay-Yıldız was retrieved in the 1st Frankfurt police station before August 2, 2018, Idil Baydar's data on March 4, 2019 in the 4th district in Wiesbaden, Janine Wissler's data on February 10, 2020 in the 3rd district in Wiesbaden been. Otherwise, according to Beuth, no further inquiries were made that could be related to threatening letters.

It was determined which officers were logged into the computers and how many were on duty in the police stations. According to Beuth, a total of three employees in the three districts had some kind of virtual contact with right-wing extremists on the Internet. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution did not find any real personal contacts with right-wing extremists. Nevertheless, the three were released from the Hessian police service.

The March 2019 illegal query on Idil Baydar was discovered in October 2019. But only in June 2020 began to question the twelve police officers who were on duty in that precinct. On July 13, 2020, disciplinary proceedings were initiated against one of them, apparently under pressure from media reports. The data retrieval for Wissler was determined on February 25, 2020. It was not until June 22, 2020 that a party involved was heard as a witness. Beuth had not asked about parallels between the later data queries on the Başay-Yıldız case. The data carriers or cell phones of the officers on duty during the queries were neither seized nor searched. According to Chief Public Prosecutor Schreiber, it was customary in Wiesbaden for an officer to log in and give his colleagues access to the computer. Therefore, there is no initial suspicion against a specific person. Neither the sender of the threatening emails nor the reasons for the data inquiries could be clarified because the perpetrators used the anonymity of the Internet. The interrogations of the officials only started in June because they were classified as witnesses and not as accused, the Frankfurt authority did not take over the Baydar case from Berlin until November 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany had come from February 2020 .

This approach met with incomprehension and sharp criticism from the opposition representatives in the committee. The corona pandemic could neither excuse the late hearing of witnesses nor the failure to secure evidence nor the delayed initiation of disciplinary proceedings.

Martina Renner, a member of the Bundestag, who is threatened herself, assumes that the police in Hesse have a right-wing radical network because of the time and space scattered illegal data queries and other incidents. They finally have to admit that they have a structural problem with right-wing officials.

Isabelle Reifenrath ( Norddeutscher Rundfunk ) called the threatening emails, the previous data inquiries and the years of unsuccessful or neglected clarification a "gigantic scandal" that undermined the credibility of the entire German police. It is inexplicable that:

• Interior Minister Seehofer did not comment on it, but at the same time denied structural racism in the police;
• the corona pandemic allegedly prevented investigators from interrogating them;
• the GBA does not see itself responsible despite addressees in eight federal states.

To let the Hessian police investigate themselves is completely inappropriate. One can no longer assume individual perpetrators. Death threats against lawyers of NSU victims, members of the Bundestag and the Central Council of Muslims are clearly a nationwide terror of a network. The NSU investigative committee of the Bundestag had proven the state failure in uncovering the NSU. The explanation of the threatening emails must therefore also help to shed light on the hitherto unexplained NSU perpetrator environment. The state is also obliged to effectively protect those now threatened. Otherwise the state failure will repeat itself.

Martina Renner emphasized that right-wing extremists had been researching the personal data of their opponents since the 1990s with anti-anti- fascist campaigns such as persecution and spying in order to then carry out attacks, assaults and arson attacks on them or on party offices, alternative centers and refugee workers. In the unresolved series of arson attacks in Neukölln, there was also an attempted murder. The concern has grown since it was known that the data could come from the police and the judiciary. The threatened therefore sometimes no longer know who is enemy and who is friend. You would have to work with the investigative authorities and report new threatening emails and anomalies to them; but sometimes there have been right-wing extremist incidents in exactly the same offices. She recalled the suspected cases of right-wing extremist Berlin police officers. You see similarities between the senders, but also differences. Internal authorities would only appear in the threatening emails from "NSU 2.0". The "coup d'état orchestra" has always combined its threats with attempts to extort money. The "National Socialist Offensive" ("NSO") also has a certain style of language. Nevertheless, "NSU 2.0" refers to the threatening mail writer André M. and the "Staatsstreichorchester", so that a connection between them can be assumed. The last threatening emails signed with "NSU 2.0" showed the handwriting of imitators. The Wiesbaden officials, on whose computers the queries about Janine Wissler and Idil Barday took place, are to be regarded as accused. Such inquiries are a criminal offense and possibly betrayal of secrets, and this is known to the officers involved. Therefore you have to search their workplaces, work computers and work telephones, possibly also their private rooms, in order to secure evidence before it is destroyed. In the meantime, such possible traces have certainly all been deleted.

On August 19, 2020, during a panel discussion with the Frankfurt Police President Gerhard Bereswill , Seda Başay-Yıldız, Meron Mendel (Director of the Anne Frank Educational Center ) and the journalist Heike Kleffner criticized the slow pace of the investigation into the threatening emails, insufficient progress and insufficient progress Consequences for the police officers affected. The lawyer said that she no longer expected the police to find the perpetrator or perpetrators.

Expert opinions and requests for legal assistance

The investigators of "AG 21" had psychological and linguistic reports drawn up on the mail senders by July 23, 2020, interviewed cyber experts and asked German secret services for support. Andreas May, head of the Central Office for Combating Internet Crime at the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor's Office, named the Tor network and the technical know-how of the sender (s) as the main obstacles for cyber investigators. One must try to find their identity in another way.

The Frankfurt public prosecutor's office had already sent a request for legal assistance to the Russian government on July 31, 2019. The BKA also later sent requests for legal assistance to Russia and the USA in order to gain access to sender data and to overcome their camouflage. The answers are pending. It is feared that the previous unsuccessful police force will provoke a new wave of threats and hate crime.

According to Hesse's Justice Minister Eva Kühne-Hörmann, Federal Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht , Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Chancellery Minister Helge Braun asked the Russian government to speed up the processing of the request for legal assistance on the case.

Further measures

Against data abuse

Because of the cases of data abuse, Hesse's police headquarters introduced random internal checks of queries from the police information system (Polas) for the first time in February 2019: the officers had to state the reason for every 200th query. If this did not seem plausible, the data protection officer of the police should investigate the case. Its control volume increased to 9,000 possible cases of abuse from February to August 2019, despite the rare samples. In the whole of 2018 there were 180 cases. On August 2, 2019, exactly one year after the first threat mail from "NSU 2.0", Police President Holger Münch admitted that Hesse's 18,000 police officers had used the information system a thousand times over. This also included the retrieval of stored personal information (PHW) from the registration address to drug use and psychological problems. Nonetheless, Andreas Grün, state chairman of the Police Union (GdP), called the number of inquiries "quite normal" and said that his colleagues expressed "incomprehension" about the controls. However, the Berlin data protection officer Maja Smoltczyk also criticized the frequent private abuse of data queries by the police.

By December 2019, the Hesse Ministry of the Interior introduced a package of measures to prevent extremism, gave more space to intercultural competence and an understanding of democracy in the training and further education of police officers, better looked after police officers and trained managers in dealing with misconduct and discrimination. Further content for the prevention of extremism among students at the Hessian University for Police and Administration would be developed. The LKA is subjecting the current cases to a structural analysis in order to be able to deduce further targeted measures. Better control mechanisms have been established for police data queries.

On July 17, 2020, Hesse's new police chief Roland Ullmann announced new procedures to prevent misuse of data queries. All access authorizations are currently being reset, all police officers are given new access data, and data protection is becoming a top priority in every department. The automatic random checks on electronic data queries would be carried out more closely and password security would be increased. In future, the user password will be asked when the data query mask is called up. In addition, a list of people with public figures is to be deposited. Anyone who wants to call up the data of these people has to have this confirmed by their superiors. The lock screen on the computers should be activated after three minutes in order to prevent "an officer from having access rights to his colleague's account." Third-party queries are extensively documented.

As a result of the threatening e-mails, it became known that hundreds of illegal data queries were made on police computers nationwide every year. Since 2018, more than 400 administrative offense, criminal or disciplinary proceedings have been initiated against German police officers. The control mechanisms and prosecution of such breaches of service differ depending on the federal state. In most federal states, the data protection authorities are not allowed to punish such administrative offenses. The interior experts of the FDP and the Left, Konstantin Kuhle and André Hahn , demanded nationwide uniform control procedures against the abuse of inquiries. This must be stopped immediately. Inadmissible queries would have to be clarified much more quickly and punished by the immediate release of the perpetrator. Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer wants to prevent illegal data queries from the police in the future through technical security measures. To this end, he had it checked whether the interrogators' biometric characteristics could be determined when accessing the data.

Reporting offices

At the beginning of August 2020, Sebastian Fiedler ( Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamten ; BDK) called for external ombudsmen and hotlines for whistleblowers so that they can report anti-constitutional incidents to the police outside of official channels. The police officers of some federal states are more likely to be responsible for citizens' complaints. The state interior ministry of Baden-Württemberg rejected the suggestion: Police officers could also turn to the police officer. The SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament and representatives of the Greens demanded clarification from Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) about the procedures for police data queries and possible connections between the threatening emails with the right-wing extremist prepper group Nordkreuz .

Expert Commission

On August 18, 2020, Hesse's Ministry of the Interior appointed a fourteen-member expert commission made up of scientists, representatives of the police, lawyers, human rights activists and journalists. It is to evaluate the previous measures against misconduct of individual police officers in the context of threatening emails, violent attacks by Hessian police officers and other incidents and make recommendations on how they should be further developed. To this end, the Commission is allowed to visit departments and speak to all officials without restriction. The chairman is the legal scholar and former Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights Angelika Nußberger , her deputy is the former member of the Bundestag and lawyer Jerzy Montag .

Victim care

Seda Başay-Yıldız was offered a gun license, a pistol and shooting training at state expense in 2018, but declined as a shift to self-protection. Since July 2020, the police in several federal states have been conducting "awareness-raising talks" with those at risk of life and limb and referring them to what to watch out for in everyday life on the street and at home. The state criminal investigation offices do not assume that the life of the threatened is in acute danger.

In the threatening e-mails from "NSO", "Wehrmacht", "NSU 2.0" and "Elysium", the BKA and the LKA Baden-Württemberg assume pure scare-mongering from an indefinite group of people with no concrete intent. It is "a mixture of expressions of displeasure and extortion letters with no recognizable, resulting risk situation". A "damaging event" has not yet occurred. The right-wing extremism expert of the SPD in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament, Boris Weirauch, criticized the fact that the threat situation can only be correctly assessed if the sender of the threatening mail is known and that the state interior ministry does not fulfill its duty of protection for those affected, but only invokes the BKA.

literature

• Pitt von Bebenburg, Hanning Voigts: "NSU 2.0": The Hessian police scandal. In: Matthias Meisner, Heike Kleffner (eds.): Extreme security. Right-wing extremists in the police, the protection of the constitution, the armed forces and the judiciary. Herder, Freiburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-451-81860-8 , pp. 131-146; Full text at Frankfurter Rundschau, September 16, 2019.

Web links

• Birte Bredow, Julia Jüttner, Wiebke Ramm, Ansgar Siemens: Lawyers report threats: "We have decided to liquidate you". Spiegel, June 2, 2020 (for a fee)
• Boris Herrmann, Dunja Ramadan: Right-wing extremism: "That also has witch-hunt elements". Süddeutsche Zeitung, July 16, 2020 (fee required)
• Livia Gerster, Philip Eppelsheim: Police scandal in Hessen: When nobody has seen anything. FAZ, July 19, 2020 (chargeable)

Individual evidence

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3. ^ ^{A b c d e f} Matthias Bartsch: threatening letter to left politician: private address, queried by the police computer. Spiegel Online, July 9, 2020.
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8. ↑ Lars Wienand: E-Mails from the “Staatsstreichorchester”: Death threat against Mohring: Lengsfeld put wrong track to the left. T-online, October 28, 2019
9. ↑ "NSU 2.0" -Drohmails: Police complains of freeloaders. Spiegel Online, July 24, 2020
10. ^ ^{A b c} Matthias Drobinski, Renate Meinhof: Police scandal in Hessen: Hate mail for you. SZ, July 19, 2020 (chargeable)
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12. ↑ Katharina Iskandar: Police scandal "NSU 2.0": lawyer receives second threatening letter. FAZ, January 14, 2019.
13. ^ ^{A b} Annette Ramelsberger: Rights threaten again Frankfurt lawyer. SZ, January 14, 2019.
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18. ^ ^{A b} Frank Angermund: After the Lübcke murder: further threatening letters to a Frankfurt lawyer surfaced. Hessenschau, September 16, 2019.
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36. ^ ^{A b} Wiebke Ramm: Trial against alleged drohmail writers: Obsession for Helene Fischer and Nazi devotional items. Spiegel Online, July 17, 2020
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38. ↑ ^{a b c} Pitt von Bebenburg: Endangered cabaret artist NSU 2.0: Trace in the Baydar case leads to the police. FRI, 13./15. July 2020.
39. ↑ ^{a b} Suspicion against the police in Hesse: "NSU 2.0": Berlin left politician is also said to have received threatening letters. rbb, July 10, 2020.
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43. ↑ ^{a b} Pitt von Bebenburg: Jutta Ditfurth receives right-wing extremist threatening mail again. FRI, July 20, 2020
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46. ↑ Death threats from "NSU 2.0": Chebli also receives right-wing threat mail. rbb, July 21, 2020
47. ↑ Further death threats from the NSU 2.0 terror network against women. ANF ​​News, July 21, 2020
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50. ↑ ^{a b} "NSU 2.0": Threat mail to Hanover's Lord Mayor and other Greens turned up. Spiegel Online, July 22, 2020
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53. ↑ The SPD leader Esken from "NSU 2.0" also threatens: "The content is so hideous that you can't even describe it."
54. ^ ^{A b} Andrea Löffler: Right-wing extremist threats: New "NSU 2.0" mails also threaten journalists. Hessenschau, July 16, 2020
55. ^ "NSU 2.0": Editorial offices also received threatening letters from right-wing extremists. Spiegel Online, July 17, 2020
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57. ↑ "NSU 2.0": A new threatening letter is also directed against WELT author Deniz Yücel. Welt online, July 18, 2020
58. ^ Right-wing extremism: Mazyek also receives "NSU 2.0" threats. FAZ, July 22, 2020
59. ↑ ^{a b} Right-wing extremist threatening letters: Police chief must vacate posts. Tagesschau.de, July 14, 2020
60. ↑ ^{a b} Ewald Hetrodt, Katharina Iskandar: Ministry of the Interior and LKA are still at odds. FAZ, July 15, 2020.
61. ↑ ^{a b} Carolina Schwarz: Comedian İdil Baydar on death threats: “This is part of my everyday life”. taz, July 14, 2020
62. ↑ Maria Fiedler: Who is behind the threatening emails from "NSU 2.0"? “I'm afraid of the police”. Tagesspiegel, July 14, 2020
63. ^ Pitt von Bebenburg: Right-wing extremism: "NSU 2.0" brings back memories of the poster series. FRI, July 30, 2020
64. ^ ^{A b c} Florian Flade, Ronen Steinke: "NSU 2.0": Affair about right-wing extremist threatening emails is expanding. SZ, August 26, 2020
65. ↑ Frank Jansen: Manic-looking hatred: 87 bomb threats from Hitler fan André M. Tagesspiegel, January 26, 2020.
66. ↑ ^{a b c d} Frank Jansen: Incident in the Berlin district court: bomb threat in the process of bomb threats. Tagesspiegel, April 21, 2020
67. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Konrad Litschko: Right-wing extremist terror letters: The radicalized. taz, April 21, 2020
68. ^ Ronen Steinke, Christian Wernicke: Hate mails to politicians: When the perpetrators virtually band together. SZ, June 20, 2019
69. ↑ ^{a b c} Konrad Litschko: threatening letters against politicians: hate mail with a thousand senders. taz, October 21, 2019
70. ^ German Bundestag: BT plenary protocol 19/106, p. 13083C. (oral question 61; PDF)
71. ^ Before the state elections in Thuringia: Death threat against Habeck. taz, October 19, 2019
72. ↑ Plutonia Plarre: Threatening emails to Berlin's left-wing party leader: recognizable pattern. taz, March 5, 2020
73. ↑ Pitt von Bebenburg: Right Terror: Threat of Murder and "Wolf Time". FRI, March 5, 2020
74. ^ ^{A b} Annette Ramelsberger: Attack in Hanau: Those who are prepared to use violence suddenly feel understood. SZ, February 21, 2020
75. ↑ Joachim Fahrun: Berlin left parliamentary group leader Helm threatened with death. Berliner Zeitung, July 10, 2020
76. ↑ "NSU 2.0." - Misogyny motives in right-wing extremist and racist threats are increasingly emerging. DLF, July 14, 2020
77. ↑ Vanessa Fischer: The problem is called: anti-feminist terror. New Germany, July 14, 2020
78. ↑ Researcher: Self-confident women are "affront". dpa / SZ, July 16, 2020
79. ^ ^{A b} Matthias Drobinski: Threat mails: A scheme full of hatred. SZ, July 23, 2020
80. ↑ Felix Hackenbruch: "Something is going wrong in this country": How those affected by the "NSU" threats assess the real danger. Tagesspiegel, July 25, 2020
81. ↑ Simon Sales Prado: Expert on misogyny and racism: "Feminism as an enemy". taz, July 24, 2020
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83. ^ Daniel Müller, Martín Steinhagen: Seda Başay-Yıldız: Police officer temporarily arrested for right-wing threats. Time online, June 26, 2019.
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85. ↑ Another suspected case in Vogelsberg: Investigations against other police officers for right-wing extremist chats. Hessenschau, March 19, 2019.
86. ↑ ^{a b} Katharina Iskandar, Tobias Rösmann: Frankfurt officials: searches of police officers because of NSU 2.0. FAZ, February 7, 2020.
87. ↑ ^{a b} Legal Committee: 14 more "NSU 2.0" threats emerged. Hessische Rundschau, August 7, 2020
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103. ^ "NSU 2.0": Berlin data protection officer examines criminal complaint in the Idil Baydar case. Berliner Zeitung, August 27, 2020
104. ↑ Married couple under suspicion: Provisional arrests for "NSU 2.0" mails. Tagesschau.de, July 27, 2020
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107. ↑ ^{a b} Frederik Schindler, Ibrahim Naber: Threat letter from "NSU 2.0": The accused appeared at the AfD media conference in the Bundestag. Welt Online, July 28, 2020
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110. ↑ Ex-police officer and wife under suspicion: arrested person denies connection to NSU 2.0 threatening letter. Hessenschau, July 27, 2020
111. ^ ^{A b} NSU 2.0 - suspect wrote relevant articles on the net. BR, August 3, 2020
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113. ↑ Trace leads to Bavaria: "NSU 2.0" investigations continue. SZ, July 28, 2020
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117. ↑ Special investigator should investigate right-wing networks in the Hessian police. Tagesspiegel, July 10, 2020.
118. ↑ Ewald Hetrodt, Katharina Iskandar, Julian Staib: NSU 2.0: Explosive endorsements. FAZ, July 11, 2020.
119. ↑ Katharina Iskandar: Investigations on "NSU 2.0": Great damage. FAZ, July 11, 2020.
120. ↑ Julian Staib: Scandal about "NSU 2.0": Far too little. FAZ, July 12, 2020.
121. ↑ "NSU 2.0" -Drohmails: lawyer Basay-Yıldız accuses Interior Minister Beuth before activism. Hessenschau, July 10, 2020.
122. ^ ^{A b} Valerie Höhne: "NSU 2.0": Special investigator in threatening mail affair is given extensive powers. Spiegel online, July 17, 2020
123. ↑ Maria Fiedler: There is a method to intimidation: Why the "NSU 2.0" case reveals a bigger problem. Tagesspiegel, July 21, 2020
124. ↑ Georg Heil, Karolin Schwarz: Threats Against Politicians: Case for the Attorney General? Tagesschau.de, July 10, 2020.
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126. ↑ ^{a b} NSU 2.0: Witnesses not yet heard. FRI, July 23, 2020
127. ↑ Uwe Kalbe, Hans-Gerd Öfinger: Politics / NSU 2.0: No idea and no desire. New Germany, July 21, 2020
128. ↑ Christoph Schmidt-Lunau: Interior Committee on NSU-2.0 threatening letters: No trace of the data requestors. taz, July 21, 2020
129. ↑ "NSU 2.0" -Drohschreiben: Left politician Renner starts from right network. DLF, July 25, 2020
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131. ↑ Pitt von Bebenburg: Right-wing extremism: “Who is the enemy and who is a friend?” FR, July 27, 2020
132. ^ "Investigations at a snail's pace": Threatened lawyer does not expect the "NSU 2.0" affair to be clarified. Hessenschau, August 19, 2020
133. ↑ Moritz Tremmel: Data abuse: Hesse's police officers do not only request data from celebrities. Golem, August 2, 2019
134. ^ "NSU-2.0" special investigator becomes part of the anti-terror center. Time online, July 17, 2020
135. ↑ NSU 2.0: Hundreds of proceedings against police officers for illegal data queries. dpa / Zeit online, July 26, 2020
136. ↑ NSU 2.0: Horst Seehofer wants to prevent misuse of police databases. Time online, July 26, 2020
137. ^ Right- wing networks in the police: "NSU 2.0" affair reaches the country. Stuttgarter Nachrichten, August 3, 2020
138. ↑ Recognize and punish misconduct: Commission of experts should examine police structures. Hessenschau, August 18, 2020
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