The public prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt am Main has brought charges in connection with the “NSU 2.0” threatening letters. In a 120-page indictment, the 53-year-old alleged author is accused of insulting, threatening and inciting people, as well as a whole series of other offenses, the authority said. He is said to have written a total of 116 threatening letters between August 2018 and March 2020 and sent them by email, fax or SMS.
He regularly used the greeting “Heil Hitler” and called himself “SS-Obersturmbannführer”. The recipients were private individuals, public figures as well as authorities and institutions. The letters contained massive verbal insults such as “waste products”, “pests” or drastic swear words 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 case also attracted a lot of attention because the perpetrator had obtained inaccessible personal data about his exclusively female victims and used them in the threatening letters. The investigators suspect that he pretended to be an employee of an authority and thus got the data. There was initially also the suspicion that police officers were involved in the offenses – but this was not confirmed during the investigation, the public prosecutor said. No police officers were involved in data queries in a “criminally relevant manner”.
The accused had already been arrested on May 3 in his Berlin apartment. Since then he has been in custody.