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Frankfurt / Main / Berlin (dpa) - After the arrest of the alleged author of the right-wing extremist "NSU 2.0" threatening letter, the Frankfurt public prosecutor wants to comment on the case again on Wednesday (2 p.m.).
A 53-year-old man was arrested in Berlin on Monday evening.
The unemployed German is strongly suspected of having sent a series of threatening letters nationwide with inciting, insulting and threatening content since August 2018.
The letters were signed with “NSU 2.0”, alluding to the series of murders by the right-wing extremist terrorist cell, the National Socialist Underground (NSU).
According to investigators, it seems obvious that the man pretended to be an official on the phone in order to ask various police stations about non-public personal data for the threatening letters.
Because of the queries on the police computers in Frankfurt, Wiesbaden and Berlin, the police had come under great pressure.
The recipients of the threatening letters were predominantly public figures, especially from the media world and politics, including members of the Bundestag and the Hessian state parliament.
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