In the trial of the “NSU 2.0” threatening letter, the accused again rejected the allegations made against him. Alexander M., who comes from Berlin, said on Thursday before the Frankfurt Regional Court that he was in a relevant forum on the Darknet, but had not committed any crimes himself. It was also an empty threat. The letters should generate headlines. It was never intended to attack anyone.
The indictment accuses the 54-year-old of having sent over 100 self-written threatening letters containing hateful insults, racist insults and fantasies of killing between August 2018 and March 2021 – by email, fax or SMS. Addressees were politicians, lawyers and public figures.
M. is accused of insult, threat, coercion and hate speech. The sender “NSU 2.0” alludes to the right-wing extremist terrorist cell National Socialist Underground (NSU).
The accused and the co-prosecutor submitted further applications for evidence on Thursday, which is why the public prosecutor’s initially expected pleading was postponed. Among other things, the applications deal with the question of whether the first of the threatening letters that went to the Frankfurt lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz was sent by a Frankfurt police officer. Basay-Yildiz, who appears in the process as a joint plaintiff, assumes this.
With the evidence, the co-prosecutor wants to show, among other things, that this first fax, unlike the following ones, was sent online from a mobile device – which speaks against the accused being guilty, since he did not have a mobile device at the time. The trial is scheduled to resume on October 24.
