The police officer, on whose computer the data of the Frankfurt criminal defense lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz, who was threatened by "NSU 2.0", was queried, refused to testify in the trial against the accused Alexander M. before the regional court on Thursday.

Her lawyer said she wanted to help clarify the matter.

However, she could not comment "with regard to the other proceedings" and will therefore not say anything about the essential content.

In April of this year, the police officer was charged with four other officers from the 1st Frankfurt police station for alleged right-wing extremist chats.

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In addition, the public prosecutor's office continues to investigate them because of the data query.

According to a spokeswoman, no sufficient suspicion has arisen so far.

However, the end of the process is awaited.

Because of the data query, a second police officer is still being investigated, who the LKA meanwhile thought was the author of the threatening letter.

He is also charged in the chat process.

All civil servants are currently exempt from their official business.

The corresponding disciplinary proceedings are suspended.

They will be completed after the criminal proceedings have ended.

Witness must come again

Another problem with the questioning of the police officer on Thursday was that she had not received permission from her authority to testify.

Efforts to obtain one had apparently not been made.

There were also discussions with several of her colleagues who had already been questioned during the trial as to which areas they were allowed to testify and which questions they were allowed to answer at all.

Thursday's witness must now come again on another day of the hearing.

However, the police officer has already made extensive statements during the investigation.

When it turned out that the minute-long and extremely comprehensive data query on Basay-Yildiz had been carried out on her computer in several police systems and that the first threatening fax had been sent a short time later, her home and workplace had been searched.

She was "shocked" and "dissolved," willingly showing and pondering to remember, the investigating officer who questioned her said in court.

He found them convincing.

Nowhere were further indications found that speak for their involvement in the crime.

Excel spreadsheet for external callers to the police

The policewoman said her computer could also be used by her colleagues, the password was on a piece of paper next to it, as is customary in the department.

She could not explain the data query.

She couldn't rule out making these herself, but she doesn't remember it.

Things are hectic at the station in downtown Frankfurt.

She was the "telephone operator" who received all calls.

The policewoman also told of an Excel spreadsheet in which external callers who asked for data were entered.

Detailed entries were also found in the table, including some of the police officer, but none on August 2, 2018.

The alleged right-wing extremist chat group was found by accident.

Investigators discovered her when they checked the police officer's cell phone.