The hope that the defendant in the Frankfurt trial would bring light into the darkness of his perverse activities because of inhuman threatening letters is probably in vain.

Was he a lone wolf?

Or is he in cahoots with right-wing extremist police officers?

Alexander M. denies having come across his victims' personal data via bogus phone calls.

However, he does not want to deny connections to the police.

In his defense, he even claims that he belonged to a chat group in which right-wing extremist police officers also participated.

He was a tool of hateful contemporaries who is now being tried by the state as a "useful idiot".

This distracts from what is actually at stake: the individual guilt of the accused.

It consists in the fact that he went into the cesspool of various networks on a daily basis in order to terrify his victims.

Alexander M. allegedly spread everything that was Nazi, sexist and racist nonsense.

The mere hope of finding out more from him of all people, something that goes beyond the overwhelming burden of proof, shows how dark the abyss of such acts is.

He also turns this trial into a trial about the power that the Internet bestows, because it is teeming with accomplices.