Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) – The Hessian police feel confirmed in their fight against hate crime after the TV show “ZDF Magazin Royale”. The editors behind moderator Jan Böhmermann had reported seven obviously criminally relevant hate messages to police departments in all 16 federal states and later described the mostly sluggish course of the investigation. In Hesse, on the other hand, everything went smoothly at the police station in Darmstadt.
Death threats were displayed, as were anti-Semitic content and anti-constitutional, right-wing extremist symbols. In some federal states, the ads were not even accepted. According to ZDF, that was not the case in Darmstadt. Instead, the police officers immediately recognized the relevance of the ad and forwarded it to state security. “Everything was done in eleven minutes. (…) It can be that easy,” summed up the public service police testers. At least one suspect has also been charged.
“Ever since the murder of District President Walter Lübcke, we have been taking the fight against hate and hate speech very seriously, including on the Internet,” said a spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior on Saturday. With the specially set up internet portal “Hessen gegen Hetze” a clear stop sign is set. A new security portal with an improved online watch will be released on the Internet before the end of the year. The Kassel district president Lübcke was shot dead in June 2019 by the right-wing extremist Stephan Ernst.
