The first day of negotiations starts with two middle fingers towards the press.
Alexander M., 54 years old, barely sat down in the dock of the Frankfurt district court on Wednesday morning when he already showed what he thought of the journalists in the press gallery.
When the presiding judge of the 17th major criminal chamber asked him for his last address, as is customary at the beginning of a trial, he called into the microphone that he would not give it.
"Because it's none of the press's business.
The public prosecutor has already published the indictment.”
Catherine Iskandar
Responsible editor for the "Rhein-Main" department of the Sunday newspaper.
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Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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Three hours later, after the indictment has been read, M. shows again with an unmistakable gesture what he thinks of the Frankfurt prosecutors.
His voice echoes through the hall: he wants to start reading out his statement immediately.
"You can't let what was said just stand there!" But that hasn't been agreed: The defense attorneys, also in the interests of the accused, have agreed with the court that the statement should only take place on the second day of the hearing.
The lawyers therefore did not print out the prepared document for the parties involved.
M doesn't care.
He brought his own expression and wants to get started.
"I'm highly motivated to comment on the matter now." But that doesn't happen.
The chairperson makes it clear to M. who is in charge in the room,
116 threatening letters in just under three years
The unemployed person, who last lived in Berlin, was briefly in custody in Moabit prison and was transferred to Frankfurt-Preungesheim in May 2021, calmly took note of the reading of the indictment.
At the very end it also deals with child and youth pornography material that appeared on computers and USB sticks from his apartment, but most of the 120 pages deal with what he is said to have done under the name "NSU 2.0": 116 He is said to have sent threatening letters between August 2018 and March 2021 in the form of emails, SMS or faxes, addressed to a large number of people.
The prosecutors speak of 24 victims: including the Frankfurt lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz, the cabaret artist Idil Baydar,
The prosecutors needed almost three hours to read out all the threatening letters that they believe M. actually wrote and sent.
The density of sexualized insults against women is high, repeated just like fecal language according to the same patterns and sentence blocks.
The texts are bursting with racism and indulge in fantasies of violence not only against the adults, but also against their children, who are sometimes threatened with bestial forms of murder by naming their first names or dates of birth and addresses.
The author repeatedly speaks of "pests of the people", raves about the "abolition of Germany", the "replacement of the population in favor of inferior races" and pronounces death sentences on behalf of the German people.