In the trial against Alexander M., the alleged author of the "NSU 2.0" threatening letters, an officer from the Hessian State Criminal Police Office (LKA) contradicted the accused's account that the special forces had the wrong door in his apartment in Berlin on the day of Ms' arrest struck, namely that of a neighbor.

M. had said this in his testimony at the beginning of the trial and went on to say that when he heard knocks on his own door afterwards, he thought that he was about to be mugged.

Anna Sophia Lang

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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On Thursday he repeated his statement that he had therefore reached for his alarm pistol, which was deposited in the hallway on the fuse box.

Through the hole in the apartment door, he could not see that the people in front of the door were police officers.

As soon as he recognized this, he immediately followed the instructions.

"Simple Physical Violence"

In his testimony, M. had also raised the accusation that the officials of the Mobile Task Force, who had come from Hesse to execute the arrest warrant, had "thrown" him in the hallway and knocked him down, causing him to scream in pain.

One of them sat down on the floor next to him and said: "Well, simulant, here we are." The author of the threatening letters had sometimes described himself as a "simulant".

The LKA official who had led the operation also contradicted these allegations by the accused during the trial at the district court on Thursday.

It was only spoken to the extent that he himself asked the accused whether he was Alexander M., which he confirmed.

In addition, M. said several times that he was innocent and didn't know what all this was about.

He was "brought to the ground by means of simple physical violence", neither hit nor touched with other massive violence, whereby he refused to put on the handcuffs.

Later he was cooperative.

Looked down the barrel of the gun

However, the witness described the previous situation as extremely precarious: After two hits with the ram against the door, during which there were constant loud calls that one was from the police, he saw through the resulting approximately 30 centimeter hole how M. got up and headed for the door.

He grabbed something out of sight and suddenly had a gun in his hand that was pointed at the officers.

"The finger was on the trigger," said the witness.

"We assumed that we were looking down the barrel of a gun." Only after being asked several times to put the gun down did M. do so and put his hands up.

When asked by the defense why M., who had previously been monitored by long-term camera, was not simply arrested when he returned from shopping - which was apparently the only reason he ever left the apartment - the witness replied that this was the decision of the special investigator Hanspeter been men.

The purpose was to secure evidence in case M. was sitting at the switched on computer.