Right-wing chats with the Frankfurt police: three suspects were executives hessenschau.de
After new investigations into right-wing chat content against Frankfurt police officers, the Presidium has drawn the first conclusions. Disciplinary proceedings were initiated against the five officers, including three managers. Several departments are to be reorganized.
A week after allegations against Frankfurt police officers became known again, the authority has now reacted. Several departments are to be reorganized, the police announced on Thursday. They also gave details of the accused officials. Three of the five police officers who were searched were middle-level executives. They are said to have covered for colleagues who apparently sent Nazi symbols in chats.
One of the senior police officers was even responsible for investigating crimes committed by colleagues and other officials. The subject area has now been subordinated to the head of the administration department for the time being. The manhunt also has a new leader. The public prosecutor’s office also accuses your previous boss of evading criminal prosecution in office. He is said to have covered up the misconduct.
Disciplinary proceedings are initiated
All five accused police officers have been suspended from duty. The new chief of police, Stefan Müller, has initiated disciplinary proceedings against them. “Supervisors always have a function, they are responsible for service and technical supervision. They always have to act in accordance with the law,” explained Müller. According to previous findings, these were blatant violations of these basic principles.
The SPD had previously called for consequences in the state parliament. A new culture of mistakes and leadership is needed, said the parliamentary group’s domestic policy spokeswoman, Heike Hofmann, on Saturday: “All means of criminal and disciplinary law must be exhausted in each individual case.”
The investigations against five Frankfurt police officers became known on Friday evening. The accusations are based on the use of symbols of anti-constitutional organizations, the evasion of criminal prosecution and the violation of official secrets.
Again and again chats with right content
In the past few years, police officers’ chat groups with right-wing content have repeatedly been uncovered. The first autumn became known in Frankfurt at the end of 2018. The officials had exchanged swastika pictures via WhatsApp, among other things. The investigators came across this when they examined the private cell phone of a police officer because of the threatening letters to the Frankfurt lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz. Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) later reported to the state parliament about almost 40 cases in which investigations were carried out.
In view of these incidents, the former head of the State Criminal Police Office, Sabine Thurau, stated last fall that the police had a problem with racism and right-wing extremism. You are therefore in favor of a scientific study on this topic.
Recently it became known that several police officers from the police headquarters in southern Hesse in Darmstadt are said to have sent pictures and messages with right-wing extremist content in a chat group.
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