In the process of the "NSU 2.0" series of threatening letters, an officer from the Hessian State Criminal Police Office (LKA) testified on Monday that "a group of around 200" employees of the city of Frankfurt had access to the blocked address of the lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz.

Basay-Yildiz, who received the first threatening fax in August 2018, had moved due to the massive threat and had her new address blocked because she feared for her family.

But the author, who had already known the first address and had used the names and dates of birth of the lawyer's family in his messages, including the then two-year-old daughter, also got to the blocked address.

Not only did he call for the lawyer to be murdered online, but he also threatened to kill the child in the most brutal way.

Anna Sophia Lang

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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In the trial against the alleged perpetrator, the 54-year-old unemployed computer scientist Alexander M. from Berlin, the question arose again as to who had access to this address and how the threatening letter writer could have gotten it.

The witness from the LKA, who had worked on several complexes during the investigation, said there was no evidence that the address had been queried by a police computer.

However, it turned out that employees from the public order office and the residents' registration office of the city of Frankfurt could have accessed it.

This came to light after Basay-Yildiz reported receiving mail from the city regarding parking violations at that address.

Different clerks are named as contact persons each time.

According to the witness, it was noted in the city's system that there was a block on information at this address, but the point was that the information was not allowed to be passed on by telephone.

Staff could easily have lifted the lock to look up the address.

However, all inquiries about the address that the LKA was able to determine were made because of legitimate concerns, namely because of administrative offenses when parking.

It is unclear who had access to the files and when

The witness could not say who had access to the address within the LKA during the investigation.

She was also unable to help with the conjectures of the co-plaintiff: She wondered whether the policewoman from the 1st district in Frankfurt, who had meanwhile been listed as the accused, because she made a comprehensive data query about Basay-Yildiz from her computer immediately before the first threatening fax had been informed of the blocked address because she had been given access to the files at an early stage in the proceedings.

According to the witness, she could not say who had access to the files and when.

A few weeks ago, the police officer was charged by the Frankfurt public prosecutor because she was part of the "Itiotentreff" chat group, in which several police officers from the 1st district shared right-wing extremist, racist, anti-Semitic and inhuman content.

Also accused is her colleague Johannes S., who was also listed as an accused in the threatening letter procedure for a while.

The co-prosecutor is convinced that he sent the first threatening fax, but the public prosecutor's office firmly assumes that the accused Alexander M. was the perpetrator.

The LKA had collected enough incriminating evidence about Johannes S. to obtain decisions on telecommunications surveillance and surveillance from the investigating judge - however, these investigative steps did not substantiate the suspicion, as the witness also stated on Monday: S. had not gone into the Darknet with his devices, did not access the email account of the writer of the threatening letter and only made private phone calls.

Several threatening letters were received while he was being watched, and there was no evidence of a delayed transmission.

It was also possible to understand exactly which pages he was active on while various threatening letters were received.

"You can never rule out anything, but it was incomprehensible for us

However, the witness also said that her findings expressly did not relate to the first threatening fax of August 2, 2018 after the data query in the first district.