It has been three months since the police stormed the apartment of the man who is said to have written the right-wing threats with the signature "NSU 2.0".
Alexander M., a 53 year old Berliner, unemployed.
One of whom the investigators say there is not only solid evidence that he wrote the letters.
His personality also suggests this.
He is described as someone who blends megalomania with considerable criminal energy.
Katharina Iskandar
Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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This is probably one of the reasons, the investigators suspect, that he believed himself to be safe for so long. Has allegedly written dozens of letters over two years, each worse than the other, with explicit threats and descriptions of what he would do to his victims. The victims were almost exclusively women, either from a migrant background or from the Left Party. The most prominent among them were the left-wing MP Janine Wissler and the Frankfurt attorney Seda Basay-Yildiz, who received the first and then more and more letters. Nevertheless, the investigators of the Hessian State Criminal Police Office (LKA) got Alexander M. on the track. They are now convinced that he is the author.
However, the case is still ongoing.
Because the investigations are "complex", as the responsible Frankfurt Public Prosecutor Sinan Akdogan says.
There are still some unanswered questions.
Above all, the investigators want to find out how the author got the data of the victims.
Individual text fragments that correspond to passages from the threatening letters were discovered by Alexander M. during a first inspection on the computer.
Further excerpts from the threatening letters have confirmed the suspicion.
"We determine openly"
Akdogan speaks of "a huge amount of data" that has to be evaluated. The case is a high priority. The investigators did not spare themselves. Even during the vacation period, it is guaranteed that both in the responsible department in the LKA and in the Frankfurt public prosecutor's office the staff is “available in full strength to advance the investigation”. As Akdogan said, the investigation is going in all directions. There is the hypothesis that the sensitive data such as private addresses, dates of birth and names of family members of the victims were "skimmed off" via trick calls to various authorities. Akdogan emphasized that this so-called social engineering is only one of many possibilities. "We determine openly." You will not commit to a theory.
In the meantime, the police also say that several possibilities are conceivable. Immediately after the arrest, the LKA had given the impression that the investigators were more or less certain that the threatening letter writer in the case of the lawyer Basay-Yildiz had called the 1st police station in Frankfurt and pretended to be a colleague. In this way he got the relevant data. It could be a coincidence that the officer, who was logged into the police's computer system at the time, was part of the right-wing extremist chat group that was discovered. When the author was successful with this scam, it is believed, he stuck with it.
The thesis is not implausible. Because apparently Alexander M. has already proceeded in this way in earlier cases. The Hessian case, however, is more complicated - and not everything can be explained with the thesis of “skimming”. The new address of the lawyer Basay-Yildiz was blocked. A query from the police computer on the basis of a call is as good as impossible in this case. The LKA would have noticed, it had installed a kind of interception circuit.
Therefore, among other things, the question arises as to whether there are accomplices or confidants. The public prosecutor's office does not provide any information about this because of the ongoing investigation. Experienced criminalists consider the possibility to be conceivable. At least it is more likely than that sensitive data could have been obtained via the Darknet. The option still remains that M. belonged to a network. But at least so far there is no evidence of this.