Now Jan Böhmermann also seems to have been targeted by the Nazis: Allegedly, private data was accessed by a police computer.
Has Jan Böhmermann (39) been targeted by neo-Nazis? As the "Frankfurter Rundschau" reports, personal data of the satirist are said to have been accessed by a police computer just a few days before his private address was allegedly used in a threatening letter from NSU 2.0. The Hessian Justice Minister Eva Kühne-Hörmann (58, CDU) reported the data theft to the interior committee of the Hessian state parliament on Thursday. Accordingly, the address was retrieved on July 25, 2020 in Berlin.
According to the report, an email was then sent on August 1, 2020, in which this address appears. This letter was available to the "Frankfurter Rundschau" and was not sent to Böhmermann, but to other addressees. The Hessian minister did not provide any information on whether Böhmermann himself received threatening letters: "Nobody has submitted that there was a threatening letter".
Other famous people were also affected
It was previously known that personal data of the Hessian left parliamentary group leader Janine Wissler (39), the cabaret artist Idil Baydar (45), the lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz (44) and the journalist Hengameh Yaghoobifarah (29) were illegally obtained from police computers in Frankfurt, Hamburg, Berlin and Wiesbaden were queried.
All four women then received threatening letters from a right-wing extremist network that signed the letters with NSU 2.0. There have been repeated threats since 2018. The perpetrators use the acronym NSU 2.0 to refer to the neo-Nazi terror network National Socialist Underground, which murdered at least ten people between 2000 and 2007.