White powder Inside and a swastika on the cover – such have received threatening letters, some of the party offices in lower Saxony on Thursday. The LKA determined.
threatening letters with white powder were sent to various party offices in lower Saxony . On some envelopes, a swastika was also mapped. Now the state determined .
Göttingen/Hameln In lower Saxony, several of the party have offices at the Thursday threatening letters with white powder . Currently, the substance will be examined by the state office of criminal investigation, said a spokesman for the interior Ministry in Hanover. Be affected by several parties, including the office of the Green politician Jürgen Trittin in Göttingen, Germany . His constituency office and the Green center are currently closed as a precaution, informed the Bundestag deputies on Twitter.
A fascist threatening letter with white powder remains, therefore, my constituency office, and the Green center #Goettingen for the time being at the request of the police and fire Department closed @GrueneGoe let us not pic.twitter.com/kaiNF2Ptu5
Jürgen Trittin (@JTrittin) June 4 intimidate, 2020
threatening letter to Trittin: state government in lower Saxony is of extreme right-wing Background
The policy journal reported about a view that is also a offices of the SPD and the CDU in Göttingen and Hameln such threatening letters be gone, partly in brown envelopes with swastikas . As the government of lower Saxony announced, according to the AFP news Agency, it is the case of right-wing extremist threatening letters. Potential health hazards investigated by the powder would.
“if further evidence must be awaited from the investigation by the local police and the criminal police Bureau: This is a reprehensible attempt to Mandate holders and mandate holders, with a right-wing extremist Propaganda and doubt substances to intimidate, a part of a variety of extremist excesses in the past few months ,” said land Minister of the interior, Boris Pistorius (SPD) . He further stressed: “The rule of law takes these offenses deluded extremists.”
threatening letters with powder to politicians
But not only in lower Saxony, in Bavaria, a threatening letter caused a stir recently. Addressee Prime Minister Markus Söder was . What he found in his letter box, you can certainly call a queasy feeling. But Söder made the Post, apparently not intimidated – he posted the contents of the packet in the case of Twitter – associated with a warning.
hatred and incitement to take: @c_drosten and @Karl_Lauterbach are not alone. Also, I received on 25.5. an envelope. Conspiracy theorists fuelling a dangerous climate. We must not allow that. The policy must show the attitude and the voice of reason to be. pic.twitter.com/ZMEGszUNnc
— Markus Söder (@Markus_Soeder) May 29, 2020
Also shocking: mayor are is often also the target of threats and insults . A mayor from the upper Bavarian town of Erding reported in Merkur.de* of his experience.
cia with dpa and AFP
*Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.