Frankfurt / Main (dpa / lhe) – The Frankfurt lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz speaks in connection with the alleged NSU files of the Hessian protection of the constitution of a “complete failure” of the authority. “They didn’t follow any clues, they didn’t do anything,” she told the German Press Agency on Monday. It was a shock for her to see that, contrary to public claims, it was not about protecting sources. Much of the information collected was about the purchase and possession of weapons and explosives by right-wing extremists. After that, however, there were apparently no further investigations.
“It was a shock for me,” said Basay Yildiz, who represented Enver ?im?ek’s family in the Munich NSU trial. The florist who was murdered on September 9, 2000 was the first victim of the right-wing extremist terrorist cell NSU. In the trial before the Munich Higher Regional Court, Basay-Yildiz and other co-plaintiffs had already criticized the fact that investigators and the court had not followed up traces of the network of supporters of the NSU trio and possible accomplices. For a long time she has been calling for the files of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution to be opened.
The “Ask the State” platform and Jan Böhmermann’s “ZDF Magazin Royale” say they have published NSU files in Hesse. According to the cover sheet, the document that has been available since Friday is a final report on the examination of the files in the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) in Hesse in 2012. The report is dated November 20, 2014. At first there was no official confirmation of the authenticity of the documents from the Hessian Ministry of the Interior or the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
The so-called NSU files of the Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution are the result of an examination in which the authority examined its own files and documents on right-wing extremism for possible references to the NSU. There has been a dispute about her for years. The files were initially classified as secret for 120 years, but the time was later reduced to 30 years. More than 130,000 people had petitioned for publication.
