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Wiesbaden (dpa) - After the arrest of a suspected author of right-wing extremist threatening letters with the sender "NSU 2.0", Hesse's Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) sees the Hessian police exonerated according to previous knowledge.
"The threatening letters had a very serious suspicion on the police," said Beuth on Tuesday.
"According to everything we know today, a Hessian police officer was never responsible for the NSU 2.0 threat mail series."
At the same time the minister assured that the case would “draw further lessons for our security authorities.
The investigation will continue with the same persistence and meticulousness that has now led to success. "
A 53-year-old man had previously been arrested in Berlin during an apartment search, as the public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt am Main and the Hessian State Criminal Police Office had announced on Tuesday night.
He is under urgent suspicion of "having sent a series of threatening letters with inciting, insulting and threatening content nationwide under the synonym" NSU 2.0 "since August 2018," the authorities said.
According to dpa information, the man is said to have obtained the information about those who were written to from the authorities.
For this he is said to have made appropriate inquiries by telephone to authorities such as the residents' registration office.
It was also said that the man could have obtained illegally distributed data from those affected via the Darknet.
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Beuth explained that a team around the police special investigator Hanspeter Mener had "left no stone unturned for ten months to tear the alleged perpetrator out of the anonymity of the Darknet". The "years of disgusting threats and intimidation against public figures" could now be punished in a legal process. "If the suspicion is proven, dozens of innocent victims and the entire Hessian police can breathe a sigh of relief," said the interior minister.
It had previously been in the room that addresses of victims came from police computers. In mid-March, Beuth had reported a total of 133 threatening letters sent out, 115 of which were included in the "NSU 2.0" crime complex. The CDU politician reported that this contained a large amount of personal data on more than 20 of the persons concerned. There is currently no evidence that these data come from police databases. Beyond the three ascertained queries from Hessian police computers, which could be connected to them due to the temporal proximity to threatening e-mails, no further data queries were known to the Hessian police in this context in the state. The investigations are directed against "unknown" and would be carried out in all directions, Beuth had declared in mid-March.
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