No charges against officer S.
Investigations against “NSU 2.0” suspects stopped
February 4, 2024, 4:31 p.m
After a series of “NSU 2.0” threatening letters, Frankfurt police officer Johannes S. is also in the investigators’ sights. The officer also stands out because he is a member of a right-wing extremist chat group. However, there will be no charges against him for the time being.
The investigation against a Frankfurt police officer in the “NSU 2.0” series of threats has been discontinued. This was confirmed by the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor’s office opposite the “Taz”. The officer Johannes S. was suspected of being involved in the threatening letters that were sent from summer 2018. According to the prosecution, the case was stopped because no sufficient suspicion could be established. Investigators did not provide any further details.
The main reason for the investigation against S. was a data query from a computer at his police station. Seda Başay-Yıldız’s contact details were determined via the computer without any official reason. As a lawyer, Başay-Yıldız represented victims in the NSU trial. Shortly after the data query at the Frankfurt police station, the lawyer received the first threatening letters as part of the “NSU 2.0” series in which she and her family were threatened with death and racially insulted. S. was on duty on the day the data was retrieved.
Başay-Yıldız has already filed a complaint against the termination of the investigation, the “Taz” reported. The authority’s decision is “currently incomprehensible,” her lawyer Antonia von der Behrens told the newspaper. “The abundance of evidence against Johannes S. only allows me to conclude that he was involved in at least the first threatening letter.”
S. also a member of a right-wing extremist chat group
In connection with the investigation into the threatening letter, the officers came across a right-wing extremist chat group of Frankfurt police officers, of which S. was also a member. The group called “Itiotentreff” regularly shared right-wing extremist, anti-Semitic, racist and other misanthropic content. The public prosecutor’s office had brought charges because of the content – but the opening of a main trial was rejected by the Frankfurt regional court last February.
The reason given by the court was that it was not a matter of disseminating content because the chat group was closed. The court was also unable to find sufficient suspicion of sedition and other crimes. The prosecution filed an appeal against the court’s decision, which was confirmed by the Attorney General’s Office. Now the Higher Regional Court must decide on the complaint. S. and the other members of the chat group are still suspended from duty.