“Overall, he seems relatively unhappy to me, maybe lonely. He lives in a foreign country and can’t speak the language,” says star author Tina Kaiser in the 390th episode of the podcast “important today”. The journalist researched for months, followed tracks and got undercover in Telegram chats: “Hildmann advertised an exclusive supporter group in his public channels from June onwards. The promise was that whoever donated money or bought his vegan Bolognese, and one Attitude test passes, he is allowed in this group. That worked in my case and so I got an invitation link from him and got into the “Wolfsschanze”, that’s what he called this group at the time. […] As the name sounds , that’s how it was there, it’s a collection of really tough Nazis and anti-Semites who worship Hitler and are preparing for some kind of fight and see Attila Hildmann as a kind of successor to Adolf Hitler,” Kaiser said in “today’s important” .
The journalist did her own research and also accompanied the hobby detectives “Hildbusters”. They evaluated and compared every single image. They searched various locations virtually for months. “What the “Wolfsschanze” brought me and others was the breakthrough in the search for Hildmann. He shared private videos and photos there much more openly, including a video of a veterinarian and that ultimately led us to him ” says Kaiser.
Tina Kaiser from Stern, an RTL team and a representative of the “Hildbusters” finally thought about how they wanted to confront Hildmann. Since there was evidence he might be armed, they waited for him to walk his dog. And then they suddenly stood in front of him. Kaiser describes the moment like this: “He wasn’t thrilled to see us, but he switched to a kind of autopilot relatively quickly and started spreading the same – excuse me – rubbish, the same hatred of Jews that he had been promoting all day long Telegram mortised. The Jews are to blame for Corona, the Jews invented the Ukraine war to deindustrialize Germany, the Jews are also to blame for Hildmann’s own sad existence.”
After the exclusive stern research in cooperation with RTL, things could now get moving. As the “Berliner Zeitung” reports, the authorities in the capital should try to extradite Hildmann. The Federal Criminal Police Office, the Federal Office of Justice, the Foreign Office and the Turkish authorities are involved. A spokesman for the Berlin Public Prosecutor’s Office did not want to say anything about the procedure “for reasons of investigative tactics”. The amount of a possible penalty is decisive for a successful extradition. He is currently accused of 80 criminal offenses.
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