extremism
Cases against police officers in the “NSU 2.0” complex dropped
Public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt am Main: The investigation was discontinued on December 7, 2023. photo
© Boris Roessler/dpa
In August 2018, a Frankfurt lawyer received the first threatening letter signed “NSU 2.0”. Investigations against two police officers in the case have now been discontinued.
A police officer and a female police officer were investigated. The first fax in the series was received by Frankfurt lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz in August 2018 and contained personal data. These had been queried without authorization from a work computer in the first police station, where the police officer was logged in. The fax was sent shortly afterwards. The police officer was on duty at the time. Other media had previously reported on the hiring.
Sufficient suspicion could not be established
The public prosecutor’s office announced that the investigation was discontinued on December 7, 2023. Sufficient suspicion could not be substantiated. An appeal was lodged against the decision. Basay-Yildiz’s lawyer, Antonia von der Behrens, confirmed this upon request.
Threatening letters signed “NSU 2.0” were then sent to numerous other public figures, especially women. In 2022, the author, a 54-year-old man from Berlin, was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison.
The co-plaintiff Basay-Yildiz, among others, doubted in the proceedings that a single perpetrator was responsible for the series. During the trial, her lawyer von der Behrens made several requests for further clarification of the events in the 1st police station and the role of the police officers there in the 20-minute query of personal data from Basay-Yildiz and her relatives. In connection with investigations into the illegal data query, a chat group with right-wing extremist content was uncovered within the district.