The platform “Frag den Staat” and the “ZDF Magazin Royale” of the German moderator Jan Böhmermann have classified as secret Hessian NSU files according to their own information. “We believe the public has a right to know exactly what’s in those documents that were originally supposed to be kept secret for more than a century,” the website said.
To protect the sources, the files were fully typed and a new document created so as not to leave any digital traces, Böhmermann wrote on Twitter. According to the cover sheet, the document available on Friday is a final investigation of the file check at the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hesse in 2012. The report is dated 20 November 2014.
Classified as a secret for 120 years
There has been controversy for years over the so-called NSU files of the Hessian Bureau for the Protection of the Constitution – the outcome of an investigation in which the Authority had checked its own files and documents on right-wing extremism for possible links to the NSU. They were initially classified as secret for 120 years, later the time was reduced to 30 years. Tens of thousands of people had requested publication.
The initiators of the petition hoped for new insights into the murders of the far-right terrorist cell “National Socialist Underground” (NSU) and possible connections to the murder of Kassel’s district chairman Walter Lübcke.
“Use to specifically endanger people”
Hesse Interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU) defended the decision not to publish the files in May 2021. “It is inherent in the work of our security authorities that they cannot disclose their working methods to everyone,” he said at the time in the state parliament in Wiesbaden. “Otherwise, the enemies of the Constitution could use this information themselves to fight against our common values or to endanger people in a targeted way.” He pointed out that the responsible parliamentary control body for the protection of the constitution has full inspection rights. files and can view all information from the protection of the constitution at any time.
The NSU could have murdered through Germany for years without being recognized. The victims: nine traders of Turkish and Greek descent and a German policewoman. The right-wing terrorists also carried out two bombings, injuring dozens of people, and a number of bank robberies. One of the murders was committed in 2006 in Kassel. The two terrorists Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt committed suicide in 2011 to avoid arrest. As the sole survivor of the NSU trio, Beate Zschäpe was sentenced to life imprisonment as an accomplice – even though there was never any evidence that she herself was at any of the crime scenes.
Source: Krone
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