Double shooting in Germany: Two shisha bars targeted, at least nine dead in Hanau - 20 Minutes

A former Bavarian policeman and his wife are suspected of being the authors of dozens of death threat messages sent for several weeks to German public figures, the Frankfurt prosecutor's office said on Monday.

The 63-year-old man and his 55-year-old wife were arrested at their home in Landshut (north-east of Munich) on Friday and have since been released, pending further investigation, the prosecution said in a statement. communicated.

Signed "NSU 2.0"

This ex-policeman had already "in the past been known for his links with the extreme right", according to the same source. The investigators suspect them in particular of "incitement to hatred" and "denigration of constitutional bodies". They are suspected of having sent by email, SMS or fax messages signed "NSU 2.0" in reference to the German neo-Nazi small group whose members committed ten racist assassinations during the 2000s.

Among the recipients are left-wing deputies, an artist or even a lawyer known to defend refugees. Last week, Peter Beuth, Minister of the Interior of the regional state of Hesse, where the first case was revealed in early July, revealed that at least 69 such messages had been sent to around 30 officials. politicians or public figures in eight regions of the country.

Research on police computers

While most of the data was freely accessible on the Internet, those of three victims had nevertheless been searched for in three police computers, said Peter Beuth. These arrests are another hard blow for the German security forces, more and more criticized for the alleged links of several of their members with far-right movements.

The scandal, which cost regional police chief Udo Münch his job, erupted in early July after revelations that a Frankfurt police computer was used to search for the personal data of a local leftist politician.

It is also in Hesse that an elected pro-migrant of Angela Merkel's CDU party, Walter Lübcke, was killed last year by a neo-Nazi currently on trial. Last February, in Hanau, still in the same region, a man who expressed racist positions shot dead nine people of foreign origin.

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