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• Associated Press  • June 10, 2021   Authorities in Frankfurt, Germany, announced on Thursday, June 10, 2021, that a tactical police unit has been disbanded. (Facebook) BERLIN — The German city of Frankfurt's tactical police unit is being disbanded amid an investigation of some members' suspected participation in a chat group where far-right messages were exchanged, authorities said Thursday. The decision by Hesse's state government came a day after the homes and workplaces of six officers were searched and the city police force said the unit was being restructured. Hesse's top...

Germany: 20 police officers investigated over far-right chats Pedophile texts found in a police commandos' smart phone led to the identification of 19 other Hesse state police allegedly involved in far-right chat groups, say prosecutors. Frankfurt police chief Gerhard Bereswill says far-right chat allegations are "terrible." Several police officers from the German state of Hessen are being investigated for far-right links, prosecutors announced on Wednesday. The investigation against 20 police officers included searches of six of their homes and workplaces inside Frankfurt's police headqua...

The 53-year-old is accused of sending a series of race-baiting, insulting and threatening letters since August 2018. Many of the messages were signed “from the NSU 2.0,” a reference to the now disbanded National Socialist Underground (NSU), a far-right terrorist group responsible for a number of murders and terrorist actions against immigrants and prominent left-wing figures. Interior Minister for the state of Hesse, Peter Beuth, said in March that a total of 115 letters had been sent to 32 people and 60 institutions in nine German states. Public prosecutors in Frankfurt said that th...

The suspect is accused of sending menacing letters to well-known progressives, including a lawyer, a politician and a comedian.