The preliminary investigation against the Thuringian AFD boss Björn Höcke in connection with the case of the killed hitchhiker Sophia L. has been discontinued. This was announced by the Chemnitz public prosecutor's office. The photo of the young woman shown at a demonstration in Chemnitz in September had "no legitimate interests" violated by Sophia L. or her relatives, the agency said. The parents of the young woman had filed a complaint.
The Bavarian hitchhiker was murdered last June. An indictment was then filed against a truck driver from Morocco. He should have brought the 28-year-old on his way from Leipzig to Nuremberg in his power and killed. The corpse he should then have filed in northern Spain.
The relatives of the young woman had turned with their ad against the fact that their image was shown without approval at a demonstration on 1 September in Chemnitz and thus had been made against refugees.
Thousands of supporters of the AfD, NPD officials, hooligans and supporters of the xenophobic Pegida movement had demonstrated in the Saxon city that day. The background was the violent death of Chemnitz's Daniel H., as suspected are two refugees.
However, in the opinion of the prosecutor Höcke was neither the applicant of the elevator nor the chairman of the meeting. A criminal liability for the use of the image of the young woman on the Facebook page of the AfD politician saw the investigators also not given, as it is in the depicted "funeral march" "undoubtedly a picture from the field of contemporary history" act. In addition, the photo of the woman had previously been used in the media in the search for the missing.