A 36-year-old man has been accused of sending parcel bombs and ransom letters to DHL postal service branches. He had turned himself in, the prosecutor’s office had filed charges. But now the man is dead.
The man had turned himself in to the public prosecutor’s office at the end of May last year. The arrest warrant issued as a result was suspended under strict conditions to which the accused adhered, reported Thiele. The death investigation is now being conducted by the Berlin public prosecutor.
On December 1, 2017, a package bomb containing an explosive device, nails and a letter was discovered in a pharmacy on the edge of the Potsdam Christmas market. In it, a million sum in bitcoins was demanded from DHL. Nobody got hurt. At the beginning of November 2017, an explosive shipment arrived at the Frankfurt (Oder) post office. And in January 2018, a letter with an explosive and incendiary device turned up in a Commerzbank in Berlin-Steglitz. According to the public prosecutor’s office, it was a dummy.
Broadcast: Antenne Brandenburg, April 20th, 2022, 12:00 p.m