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Düsseldorf (dpa) - The suspension of a police officer who was in several right-wing extremist chat groups is lawful.
The Düsseldorf administrative court decided and communicated this on Tuesday in an urgent procedure after a preliminary assessment.
The Düsseldorf police headquarters had rightly based the prohibition on exercising office on the suspicion that the officer shared an attitude that was contrary to the basic democratic order (Ref .: 2 L 2370/20).
As the court also announced, the officer received images on her mobile phone in four chat groups for months, which "contained both unambiguous and unbearably tasteless allusions to actors and events during the National Socialist regime".
The Holocaust is played down and Nazi victim Anne Frank is unbearably ridiculed.
Adolf Hitler is shown on a sticker, who forms a heart with his hands.
Other content is racist.
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The policewoman did not distribute this content herself, but left it on her mobile phone for more than ten months without distancing herself from it.
Although she approached her department with the content - her claim that she had only noticed it shortly before was not credible.
The policewoman had requested that the suspension be lifted.
But the court found: The employer’s assessment was not objectionable.
The behavior of the police officer leads to doubts about her character suitability.
An appeal against the decision can be lodged with the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster.
A few weeks ago the administrative court had lifted the suspension of a policewoman on another matter: the content that she had been accused of was a parody of Hitler.
The scandal surrounding right-wing extremist chats at the North Rhine-Westphalian security authorities has now expanded to more than 200 suspected cases.
The interior ministry put the number of suspended officials at 25 on Monday.