He signed with the initials of the terrorist organization NSU and said goodbye with a “Heil Hitler”
A 54-year-old German neo-Nazi was sentenced on Thursday to five years and 10 months in prison for sending dozens of threatening letters to people in public life, mostly women, signed with the initials “NSU 2.0”, referring to the National Socialist Underground terrorist organization, and with the greeting “Heil Hitler”.
The Supreme Court of Frankfurt found Alexander M. guilty of, among other things, death threats, incitement to commit a crime, misdemeanors, attempted coercion, disturbance of public order and incitement to hatred. Between August 2018 and March 2021, the convicted person sent a total of 81 letters by e-mail, SMS or fax to politicians, lawyers, journalists and prosecutors with threatening and offensive content.
The prosecutors in charge of the case had demanded a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence for Alexander M., whom they also charged with making several bomb threats against the courts, although these charges could not be proven.
Before the verdict was announced, the defendant rejected all charges and accused the prosecutors of basing their arguments on manipulations and lies to get him behind bars at all costs. However, Alexander M. acknowledged at trial that he had participated in a far-right group that exchanged messages on the Darknet, which he claimed caused a large portion of the messages sent to his victims to end up on his computer.
Among the recipients of his messages are satirical TV presenter Jan Böhmermann and talk show host Maybritt Illner, as well as comedian Idil Baydar, all very popular in Germany.
The series of threatening letters began with Turkish-born lawyer Seda Basay Yuldiz from Frankfurt, who defended the interests of several victims of the NSU commando, responsible for the murder of nine immigrants and a police officer, during the trial of Beate Tschäpe. sole survivor of the terrorist group, sentenced to life imprisonment in 2018.
His two commando colleagues, Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos, committed suicide in November 2011 when they were about to be arrested in the town of Eisenach. The wave of threatening letters from Alexander M. started a few weeks after the verdict against Tschäpe.
Source: La Verdad
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