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This stems from the extensive research papers that SPIEGEL and Norddeutsche Rundfunk have jointly evaluated, as well as from discussions with participating researchers and former bunker employees.
The Attorney General’s Office in Koblenz has filed charges against eight suspects who are said to have operated the cyber bunker. This was preceded by years of investigations by the Rhineland-Palatinate State Criminal Police Office.
SPIEGEL reports here and in its new edition on Friday, May 15, in detail on the search for the accused who are said to have turned the city of Traben-Trarbach on the Moselle into a center of the dark web. A report can also be found in the ARD media library.
A bunker employee said in his question that the offer of safe accommodation for extreme groups was considered “a gap in the market.” He himself contacted a representative of the identity movement in Germany via encrypted messengers and then signed a rental agreement for a cloud server with the group. The rights even received a particularly low price of € 30 per month; other clients would have paid several hundred euros for the same server.
Bunker operators around the Dutch Herman Johan Xennt advertised their data center as “bulletproof”, very safe. They also rented storage space without contracts and without requiring the personal data of the tenants.
Xennt responds to SPIEGEL and NDR at hand with a detailed list of questions about pretrial detention. It is his first public statement on the allegations made by the Koblenz Attorney General. The Dutchman explains that he was not aware of the content that his clients were running on cyberbunker’s servers.
Xennt also speculates that it could have been political content that prompted German authorities to widely deploy them: “For example, we also host WikiLeaks servers, so he wonders if WikiLeaks was not the main reason why German authorities De suddenly he showed interest in us. ”
Chief Prosecutor Jörg Angerer told SPIEGEL and NDR: “I qualify this statement as an attempt to disguise itself as a victim of political persecution. Until now we have had no evidence that the WikiLeaks server was in the bunker.” These servers would also have played no role in the investigation.
The evaluation of the servers of the cyber bunkers is still ongoing, but so far the researchers “have not found a single legal site.”
