After hate mail on the controversial Telegram platform, a suspected Holocaust denier from Rosenheim, Bavaria, has been targeted by investigators.

The police assume that the 59-year-old has published inciting texts and criminal conspiracy theories in at least 45 cases since January 2021.

The man's living and business premises were searched early Wednesday morning, according to the police headquarters in Upper Bavaria.

He is said to be the operator of a Telegram group with more than 800 members, in which, for example, the Holocaust was denied and called for "hunting down the upper criminal system and cleaning it up".

Multiple data carriers were found on the man who remained at large.

The investigators accuse him of incitement to hatred in 45 cases and attempted coercion in two cases.

“The denial of the Holocaust constitutes hate speech.

This is a serious crime punishable by imprisonment for up to five years," said Andreas Franck, the anti-Semitism commissioner of the Bavarian judiciary.

"We pursue anti-Jewish criminals with all due diligence - whether online or analog."