The public prosecutor's office Frankfurt am Main has contradicted a report of the "picture", according to which police wanted to search the editorial rooms of the newspaper. The authority described this presentation as ambiguous: At no time a "search" of the business premises of the Axel Springer publishing house had been intended, she said.
Rather, it was a matter of informing criminals "with witness support from a media company". It was not an interference in the freedom of the press acted. Background are therefore investigations against unknown perpetrators on suspicion of threat and sedition. They would be in connection with threatening letters to a Frankfurt lawyer. These had been signed with "NSU 2.0".
New findings in the case would have called for "data in connection with access to certain publicly accessible online content at Axel Springer-Verlag" to collect. These would only be stored for a limited time. Therefore, the public prosecutor's office on Friday evening made an emergency arrangement to prevent the loss of evidence. This obliges the publisher to publish the data.
However, Springer-Verlag refused to do so and insisted on the submission of a court order. He had however assured to secure the appropriate data.
The "Bild" newspaper reported under the title "Without search warrant: prosecutor wants to search image" reported that on Saturday several police officers had been denied access to the publisher. Editor-in-chief Julian Reichelt had said that the "Bild" newspaper "due to the high good of the inviolable informant protection will never voluntarily publish data from readers or informants." He announced an appeal against a possible court order.