German far-right crime rises; police arrest alleged neo-Nazi

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Berlin police arrested a 53-year-old German man on suspicion of sending dozens of threatening letters to politicians, lawyers and journalists that ...

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A frozen German flag lies on a lawn in front of a kiosk in the Kesselstadt district in Hanau, Germany, on Feb 18, 2021. BERLIN: Berlin police arrested a 53-year-old German man on suspicion of sending dozens of threatening letters to politicians, lawyers and journalists that were signed with the acronym of a neo-Nazi group, as officials warned on Tuesday of a disturbing rise in far-right extremism across Germany.

The case raised suspicions that suspect was connected with the police after it emerged that the personal data of three people who received threats had been accessed on police computers, dpa reported.Advertisement “This development in Germany is not only troubling, but in view of our history, deeply shameful,” he said.

In the most deadly incident, nine people with immigrant backgrounds were shot dead in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in February by a gunman who had called for genocide.

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