The trial day is well advanced when psychiatric expert Seda Basay-Yildiz asks a question.

"How is your mental state these days?" The witness is silent, second by second.

Then she says: "I can deal with it." The Frankfurt lawyer has already answered many questions, has listened to the atrocities, the worst insults and the most serious threats that the author of the "NSU 2.0" threatening letter sent her again.

She heard that her daughter, then about two years old, was to be slaughtered, that her mother was a "headscarf cleaner" and her father a "senile patriarch", that she herself was "a member of an inferior race with a German passport" and that the receipt will come.

Anna Sophia Lang

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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"Glory and honor of the Waffen-SS", it said in some letters that blood would flow and they should leave Germany as long as they could.

And then the calls for murder on the net, where money was collected for the shooter and another time, on the Darknet, the date of birth and address were there.

"It often happens that people want to kill me," says Basay-Yildiz, "but not that they have my address."

It is day three of the process of the "NSU 2.0" threatening letter in the Frankfurt district court.

The 17th Greater Criminal Chamber has invited the first recipients of the news for this day, Basay-Yildiz and the Bonn lawyer Mehmet Daimaguler.

There are 24 victims in total.

For the first time, the accused Alexander M. did not appear in the neon yellow and gray prison clothing, but with the same rude manner as usual.

He interjects when it's not his turn, wants to discuss where it's not supposed to, and negotiates the next entry in the minutes.

"My existence as such is the subject"

"He's crazy," it says almost identically to the previous day of the hearing, only this time M. doesn't say that about a representative of the co-plaintiff, but about the witness Daimaguler, to whom he is said to have sent a threatening letter.

The lawyer, who, like Basay-Yildiz, had represented victims in the NSU trial at the Munich Higher Regional Court, had talked about the many insulting letters he had received in his life.

"It's not about what I do or say, my existence as such is the issue." And had said about the authors: "I think that to a large extent they are small, cowardly sausages." The accused, said the witness a little later, was "completely meaningless" for him.

Then M. interjected that he wanted to file a criminal complaint for insult.

Later, when Basay-Yildiz is sitting in the witness chair, M. is completely calm and does not speak once.

Daimaguler also said some of what the lawyer said: all the disgusting mail, which is so much part of everyday life that you don't report it because otherwise you wouldn't be busy with anything else.

Daimaguler says he got the support of a therapist at some point.

Basay-Yildiz is tough, says she had to stay calm for the family and deal with the threats, which were becoming increasingly sinister.

The first letter in August 2018 came shortly after the NSU verdict in Munich.

At the time she requested the repatriation of the deported "Bin Laden's bodyguard."

The author gave the name of her daughter and the registered address.

"I thought someone would come around the corner and do something to my daughter.

The danger was real to me.”

Since then, everything has been focused on protecting the child.

Basay-Yildiz says she has restricted her life, stopped going to events and turned down two public defense mandates.

It was even up for debate that she was withdrawing from Islamism proceedings.

As more and more family details appeared in the letters, including the new blocked address, which was even published online, she began to upgrade the house.

After a long struggle and public pressure, she says, the state of Hesse agreed to pay 50,000 euros for it.

She also criticizes the police for not informing her that she only got help from the LKA.

And today?

She has to be vigilant and at the same time convey stability to her husband, her daughter, and her anxious parents.

A balancing act.