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Berlin / Frankfurt / Main (dpa / bb) - Berlin's Senator for the Interior, Andreas Geisel, was relieved and pleased about the arrest of a suspicious man from Berlin in connection with the "NSU 2.0" death threats.
"This also means a relief for the victims that the alleged perpetrator is now found," said Geisel on Tuesday the German press agency.
It is also a relief for the police because there has always been the suspicion that “it is coming from the police”.
But it was clearly shown: “No, it was someone who was known to the police with criminal acts.
Certainly with right-wing extremist acts. "
There is currently no further information about the man, said Geisel. That will be worked up. “But it doesn't look like it was a tough, well-known right-wing extremist. More like a troll sitting at his computer writing threatening letters. But it has a feeling of insecurity among people. "
Investigators heard that the 53-year-old man is said to have committed a high double-digit number of crimes in the past 20 years.
But only about ten percent of them are said to be politically motivated, right-wing extremist crimes, something the use of appropriate symbols or showing a Nazi greeting.
Whether it was a native of Berlin was initially unknown.
The man lived in the Wedding district on Osloer Strasse.
A special task force (SEK) from the Hessian State Criminal Police Office caught the man in his apartment on Tuesday night.
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The unemployed German is strongly suspected of having sent a series of threatening letters with inciting and threatening content nationwide since August 2018 under the synonym "NSU 2.0".
The first threatening letters were sent to Frankfurt lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz in August 2018, who has since received around 20 letters with death threats against herself and her family.
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