In the case of right-wing extremist threatening letters with the abbreviation “NSU 2.0”, the investigators suspect a former Bavarian police officer and his wife. The public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt am Main announced.
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Both were provisionally arrested on Friday, but have since been released. The 63-year-old and the 55-year-old are said to “send several e-mails with insulting, hateful and threatening content to members of the Bundestag and various other addressees” have sent.
Apartment search in Landshut
Accordingly, the public prosecutor, together with the Hessian State Criminal Police Office and the Bavarian police, searched the couple’s apartment in Landshut. The former police officer was due earlier right motivated Criminal offenses appear.
Since there were no conditions for an arrest warrant, the two suspects were released. The evaluation of the data media seized during the search continues. The couple is being investigated on suspicion of threats, sedition, anti-constitutional abuse of constitutional organs and insult.
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At least 69 threatening letters
Hesse’s Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) had announced last week that by then 69 “NSU 2.0” letters were known. The recipients were different public figures.
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Right-wing extremist threatening letters with the abbreviation “NSU 2.0” have been sent for almost two years. In at least three cases, the personal data of those affected had previously been requested by Hessian police computers. Beuth does not rule out that there could be a right-wing network in the Hessian police. A special investigator was used.
The abbreviation “NSU 2.0” refers to the “National Socialist Underground”, who committed ten racial murders in Germany between 2000 and 2007.
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In connection with the threatening letters, it already had one in June 2019 provisional arrest given. At that time it was a Frankfurt police officer.
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