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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The Düsseldorf Ministry of the Interior has published excerpts from an internal special report on the controversial chat groups at the police in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Literally, the 30-page paper says: "The actions of the drivers and supporters went well beyond posting right-wing extremist, xenophobic, racist and anti-Semitic content."

It is about "racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, sexism, homophobia etc."

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The trigger for the early publication of this passage in the report, which the Ministry of the Interior claims to have had only since Monday: Essen's police chief Frank Richter had written to the ministry that "according to the assessment of the special inspection, it was not about extremist chat groups".

The WAZ quoted from Richter's letter at the weekend, followed by the German press agency.

In fact, the sentence to which Richter refers is initially: «The identified chat groups are not extremist chat groups, but private chat groups ...».

Then, according to the ministry, the report goes on to say: "... which were misused through deviant behavior, including by posting right-wing extremist, xenophobic, racist and anti-Semitic content".

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According to the Ministry of the Interior, the complete report of the special inspection of the Essen / Mülheim an der Ruhr police should be made available to the state parliament and the public after its in-house examination.

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