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Investigations into right-wing threat letters signed “NSU 2.0” have brought to light another strange process. At the end of July, unauthorized personal data of ZDF presenter Jan Böhmermann was recovered from a Berlin police computer. A few days later, Böhmermann’s private address appeared in a threatening letter, according to the “Frankfurter Rundschau” (FR).
Hessian Justice Minister Eva Kühne-Hörmann (CDU) reported on Thursday to the interior committee of the state parliament in Wiesbaden about the illegal data query of the Berlin police. This took place on July 25, 2020. According to the FR, there is a threatening letter “NSU-2.0” from August 1, in which Böhmermann’s address can be found. The email itself was not sent to Böhmermann, but to other recipients.
At the committee, however, the minister did not provide any information on the question whether the Berlin data appeared in a threatening letter against Böhmermann. The FR report also does not contain more detailed information on what data has been accessed through the police computer, and whether the address was included.
A similar process had already taken place in Berlin on March 5, 2019, when the personal data of cabaret artist İdil Baydar was queried on a police computer for no discernible official reason. Soon after, Baydar also received a threatening letter with the sender “NSU 2.0”.
The data protection officer doubts the will of the police to clarify
Berlin’s data protection officer Maja Smoltczyk also reported a month ago on unauthorized data inquiries in relation to death threats from right-wing extremists, while also criticizing the unwillingness of the police to investigate the matter. . Apparently, it was data of victims of the series of attacks in Neukölln.
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The series of threats with the “NSU 2.0” logo started in August 2018 with a faxed hate speech against Frankfurt lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz and her family. The investigations led to illegal data inquiries from the Frankfurt police and Frankfurt police officers from the right-wing chat group. Other recipients of the “NSU 2.0” threats were, for example, the president of the Central Council of Jews, Josef Schuster, the leader of the left-wing parliamentary group of Hesse Janine Wissler and the new leader of the left-wing parliamentary group in Berlin, Anne Helm.
So far, no connection to the threatening letters has been clearly demonstrated on any of the traces. In July, investigators arrested a former Bavarian policeman and his wife, but the suspicion could not be confirmed here either. Some opportunists may also have sent signature emails referring to the “National Socialist Underground” terrorist group. (Teaspoonful)
