Yunus Ulger
WALL – A secret report on the underground Neonazi group NSU, which killed eight Turkish, one Greek and one German feminine police officer in Germany between 2000 and 2007, has been leaked to the press. The 173-page report, ready by the Hessen State Division for the Safety of the Structure in 2012, was revealed by the humor program ZDF Magazin Royale on German Second Tv and the web platform Frad den Staat. Whereas this system’s host, Jan Böhmermann, introduced the report, it was said on the web site that “We imagine that the general public ought to know what occurred within the report, which was requested to stay confidential for 120 years.” First, it was determined to maintain the file secret for 120 years, and the interval was decreased to 30 years after public stress.
Earlier than its report was revealed, the Hessen State Division for the Safety of the Structure, knowledgeable by ZDF Magazin Royale, made a really brief assertion and said that it’s analyzing the difficulty. Specialists and politicians who reviewed the report said that there was no new information for the victims, however fairly errors have been made within the work of the Workplace for the Safety of the Structure on Neonazis. Whereas the Christian Unity Occasion (CDU), one of many events, reacted strongly to the published, the Left Occasion reacted positively.
‘BÖHMERMANN EXCEEDED THE LIMIT OF PRESS FREEDOM’
CDU Hessen State Meeting deputy Holger Bellino was harshly criticized for Jan Böhmermann’s disclosure of the NSU secret file, which was on the agenda together with his poem insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Bellino argued that the publication of the report was illegal and due to this fact Böhmermann exceeded the restrict of freedom of the press. He mentioned that from the data within the report, extremist teams will be taught concerning the working strategies of the safety models, which can endanger the lives of the informants. Bellino said that the report didn’t comprise new information on NSU victims and their family members.
Torsten Felstehausen, home coverage spokesperson for the Left Occasion’s Hessen State Parliamentary Group, mentioned that due to the report, the general public had the chance to know concerning the neglect and unhealthy work of the Workplace for the Safety of the Structure on right-wing terrorism for years. Felstehausen argued that the report was saved secret, to not shield the company’s sources, however to cover its poor work. Whereas the Social Democratic Occasion (SPD) said that it doesn’t wish to make an announcement for now, there was no assertion from the Greens, who’re working a coalition authorities with the CDU.
OMISSIONS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION OFFICE
Exif – Recherche und Analyze, the analysis platform that reviewed the report, reported that 40 % of the report was associated to weapons and explosives by Neonazi teams. Stating that the report primarily focuses on the omissions and errors of the Division for the Safety of the Structure, the platform said that the company collected a variety of details about Neonazis, however didn’t intervene in opposition to it.
The Hessen State Division for the Safety of the Structure has at all times been the goal of criticism for the NSU murders and the homicide of Kassel Governor Walter Lübcke by Neonazi Stephan Ernst in 2019. Andreas Temme, a member of the Hessen State Division for the Safety of the Structure, was current when Halit Yozgat was killed in an web cafe run by the NSU in 2006. Nevertheless, Temme insisted in courtroom that he didn’t know concerning the homicide and that he had not seen something. The division described Neonazi Stephan Ernst, the assassin of Kassel Governor Walter Lübcke, as ‘extraordinarily harmful’ in 2009, however has stopped following Ernst since 2015.
Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos, three members of the NSU recognized to this point who straight dedicated the murders, dedicated suicide in a trailer in 2011 after being surrounded by the police after a financial institution theft. The NSU killings additionally got here to gentle after that. One other member of the group, Beate Zschaepe, was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Munich Regional Excessive Courtroom. In the course of the trial, which lasted 5 years, the negligence and roles of the supporters of the NSU and the German safety models couldn’t be clarified.