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Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) - The number of right-wing extremist threatening letters with the sender "NSU 2.0" continues to increase.

Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) reported on Thursday in the Hessian state parliament in Wiesbaden of a total of 133 threatening letters that have now been sent.

The investigators would attribute 115 of these letters to the "NSU 2.0" crime complex.

18 letters were allegedly written and sent by free riders.

The recipients were predominantly people in public life, especially from politics and the media world.

The 115 letters were addressed to 32 people and 60 institutions in a total of 9 federal states and Austria.

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