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p class=”article first odd Initial”>Thorsten W. is now in custody. The police officer from Hamm liked to disguise himself as a German in his spare time, wore the right scene clothes, hung Reich War flags on his balcony. The federal prosecutor had him arrested a good two weeks ago. The accusation: Thorsten W. is said to have planned extreme right-wing attacks with twelve other men as “Group S.”
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p class=”article even”>The force joins the latest terrorist threats in the country. And in the case of Thorsten W., there is also another questionable trend: Again and again, nationwide police officers with extreme right-wing abuses have recently been noticed.
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p class=”article even”>Recent examples are:
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p class=”article even”>Aachen: Two officers, guards in front of a synagogue, accidentally let “Sieg Heil” calls from a television series run over their radios. According to the police, there are “dubious” pictures on their cell phones. Disciplinary proceedings are initiated.
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p class=”article even”>Bautzen: Citizens report “Sieg Heil” calls from an apartment. The police encounter three candidate candidates there. These are suspended and are being investigated for the use of signs of unconstitutional organizations.
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p class=”article odd”>Berlin / Frankfurt: In Frankfurt, the apartments of three police officers are searched, who are said to have been part of a right-wing extremist chat group. There is also a raid in Berlin on an official from Hessen. He is said to have been a member of a chat group in which right-wing extremist sayings and pictures were exchanged. The man is said to have been one of the spokesmen. He is suspended, the investigative body is the LKA Hessen – which has been investigating extreme right-wing accusations against 37 other police officers since 2018, among other things because they are said to have sent a lawyer as “NSU 2.0” threatening letters.
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p class=”article even”>Wiesbaden: Three BKA junior commissioners exchange ideas about Halloween costumes in a WhatsApp chat. One posts a picture of Hitler and suggests to disguise himself as the assassin of Halle or in Wehrmacht uniforms with “original armbands”. One of the men is said to be released and disciplinary proceedings are initiated against two.
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p class=”article odd”>Lahr: Seven police students are said to have exchanged National Socialist, anti-Semitic and misogynistic messages in a chat group. All of them are due to be released because of “significant character deficiencies”.
18 disciplinary proceedings in Berlin alone
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p class=”article odd”>The list goes on. Because, as a recent TEH survey in the countries shows, more than 90 extreme right-wing incidents have been pursued by the police since last year. There are 18 disciplinary proceedings in Berlin alone. 13 cases are investigated in Hesse, nine in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and six in Saxony.
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p class=”article even”>In Brandenburg, nine police officers had to be transferred recently because they were photographed in front of a graffiti on the right – and when the lettering was removed, two letters of the scene “DC” for “Defend Cottbus” were left behind. Also, there are currently four further extreme right-wing incidents, according to the Brandenburg Ministry of the Interior.
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p class=”article odd”>NRW, in turn, discovered four Reich citizens in the police force. In Lower Saxony, an official sent anti-constitutional pictures and played a song by the Hitler Youth. In Saxony, a police officer refused access to his headscarf wearer who wanted to file a complaint.
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p class=”article even”>In the meantime, head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Thomas Haldenwang, has spoken of “too many individual cases”. Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) also explains: “People with right-wing extremist approaches must not find a place in a democratic police force.”
Extremism “absolutely unacceptable”
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p class=”article even”>Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) recently stood in front of the approximately 260,000 police officers in Germany. The extremist incidents are negligible among them. But the CSU man also said that extremism in the public service was “absolutely unacceptable”. The officials should be firmly on the ground of the constitution.
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p class=”article odd”>The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution set up a central office months ago to investigate extreme right-wing activities in the public service. A situation report is in the works. Its creation dragged on because the constitutional protection does not raise the professions with stored right-wing extremists. In this way, only previously known incidents are compiled or random discoveries are found on the Internet.
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p class=”article even”>But it could soon be serious for police officers who are supporters of the far-right “wing” in the AfD. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution will shortly announce whether the pool around Bjorn Hocke will become a full observation object – like the NPD. The “wing” is already a “suspected case”; in the next step, the secret service could open its entire arsenal of surveillance measures.
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