In the case of the six Hessian policemen who are said to have dismissed right-wing extremist messages in a chat group, new details become known: Investigators are intensively searching for a connection between the accused officials and a lawyer who receives a threatening letter with the signature "NSU 2.0" in the summer. had received. The letter contained information such as the lawyer's home address and her child's first name.
According to findings of the investigators, this information had been requested "immediately" on the 2nd of August prior to sending the threatening fax via a police computer of the 1st police station in Frankfurt. This reports the SPIEGEL. Investigators are now investigating whether the police had official services to deal with the lawyer, such as in testimony in criminal cases.
The six officers of the first police station in Frankfurt am Main are said to have belonged to a WhatsApp group at least from October 2015 to October 2016, probably bearing the name "Itiot". According to investigators, the members have exchanged about 50 potentially criminally relevant messages, including swastikas, right-wing extremist caricatures, images of Hitler and inhumane depictions of refugees and people with disabilities.
Three of the defendants were members of a service group that had been attacked by protesters in March 2015 in the riots of the opening of the European Central Bank in the First Police Station. Her colleagues and supervisors reported that officials behaved impeccably on duty. They were not noticed by right slogans nor by racist behavior. "This discrepancy makes me completely at a loss," says a superior.
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