The disclosure of secret NSU reports is not without consequences: the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hesse is filing a criminal complaint against unknown persons. A lawyer for victims of the NSU attests to the state’s protection of the constitution as a “complete failure”.
The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LfV) Hessen has filed a criminal complaint after the publication of secret NSU reports. The authorities in Wiesbaden announced that the criminal complaint had been filed against persons unknown because of the illegal disclosure of classified documents. The Hessian State Criminal Police Office is now dealing with the investigation.
The “Ask the State” platform and Jan Böhmermann’s “ZDF Magazin Royale” published the documents and posted them on the Internet. The LfV’s criminal complaint is only directed against the illegal disclosure of the documents and not against their publication.
The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution emphasized that the documents were presented in full to two investigative committees of the Hessian state parliament. The members of the Parliamentary Control Commission for the Protection of the Constitution would also have the opportunity to view the file inspection reports at any time. The documents were also made available to the Federal Criminal Police Office, the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Hessian State Criminal Police Office.
The Frankfurt lawyer Seda Basay-Yildiz sharply criticized the Hessian protection of the constitution and spoke of a “complete failure” of the authority. “You didn’t follow any clues, you didn’t do anything,” said Basay-Yildiz. 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 Simsek’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.
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.
For years, the NSU had been able to murder undetected through Germany. The victims of the right-wing terrorists were nine traders of Turkish and Greek origin and a German policewoman.
