Crime – Frankfurt am Main – “NSU 2.0” threatening letters: Trial is expected in the spring – Panorama
Frankfurt / Main (dpa) – The trial against the alleged sender of the “NSU 2.0” threatening letter is expected to begin this spring at the Frankfurt Regional Court. An exact date has not yet been set, said a spokeswoman for the Frankfurt public prosecutor’s office.
The Frankfurt public prosecutor’s office brought charges against the alleged author of the threatening letters at the end of October. He is charged, among other things, with insult, threats and sedition. The application has 120 pages.
The then 53-year-old man was arrested in May 2020 in his Berlin apartment. He is said to have sent a series of threatening letters that were signed “NSU 2.0” in reference to the right-wing extremist terrorist cell National Socialist Underground (NSU). The accused is said to have sent a total of 116 self-written threatening letters between August 2018 and March 2021 – by e-mail, fax or SMS. He regularly used the greeting “Heil Hitler” and called himself “SS-Obersturmbannführer”.
The recipients were private individuals, public figures, authorities and institutions. The letters demonstrated massive verbal insults such as “waste products”, “pest” or drastic swearwords against people with Turkish roots. There were threats, among other things, with “Better piss off while you get out of here alive” or that family members would be “slaughtered with barbaric sadistic severity”.
The man is charged with the following offenses in 67 cases: insult, attempted coercion, threats, disturbance of the public peace by threatening criminal offenses, dissemination of symbols of unconstitutional organizations, public incitement to criminal offenses, hate speech, assault on enforcement, property and youth pornography Writings as well as a violation of the gun law.
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