Dozens of letters with death threats and the signature “NSU 2.0” have been sent since 2018. A 54-year-old is therefore on trial in Frankfurt. There it goes directly to one of the recipients on Thursday.
In the process of the “NSU 2.0” threatening letter, the accused verbally threatened the journalist Deniz Yücel, who was present as a witness.
When asked by Yücel whether the accused had written certain emails, Alexander M. said on Thursday before the Frankfurt Regional Court that if he could, he would do “completely different things” with him. In the process, the public prosecutor’s office accuses the 54-year-old from Berlin of insults in 67 cases, attempted coercion and threats.
Yücel reported as a witness that he had received a total of five threatening emails. Two of them have not been the subject of the proceedings so far. He asked the accused whether he had written them – and was then threatened and insulted by him. The presiding judge called the accused to order and at the same time referred to the presumption of innocence that applies to Alexander M. He had denied the allegations of the prosecution at his appearance in court.
The series of threatening letters began in August 2018 with death threats against the Frankfurt lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz and her family. The letters were signed “NSU 2.0” – an allusion to the right-wing extremist terrorist cell National Socialist Underground (NSU).
Yücel, who is also president of the PEN Center Germany, said that after receiving the emails with death threats and verbal abuse, his publisher took additional security measures for him. In general, he is used to threats from German or Turkish right-wing extremists. He was worried about the suspicion that the police, as an armed state force, could be involved – personal data had been requested from other mail recipients on police computers. Yücel also criticized the Hessian State Criminal Police Office (LKA), which had turned to him in such a strange and disconcerting way during its investigations in terms of form and content that he had not answered.
Cabaret artist Christian Ehring threatened
The TV presenter and cabaret artist Christian Ehring was one of the victims of the series of threatening emails. The 49-year-old testified on Thursday that after receiving an email with a death threat, he called on his family to pay more attention. He did not feel specifically threatened and did not take any other security measures. But overall it was a “queasy, depressing, very, very uncomfortable feeling”. He sees the mail as a reaction to a program on right-wing extremism in the police force.
Lawyer Günter Frankenberg also received a death threat after he had prepared an expert opinion on behalf of Basay-Yildiz, which dealt with the question of damages for security measures that the lawyer had to take because of the threats. After receiving the email, he seriously asked himself whether he should give up his job in the interest of his family’s safety, Frankenberg said. He had to assume that the threat came from the environment of the NSU and that the greatest danger existed.
It was also about a bomb threat that had been received by email at the district court in Neuruppin, Brandenburg. The cabaret artist Idil Baydar was also invited as a witness, but had canceled according to the court.
Source: Stern
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