An unknown person has sent at least 200 letters with antisemitic hate speech across Bavaria. The criminal police are investigating and looking for other victims, said the police headquarters in Upper Bavaria North on Thursday. The unknown perpetrator has been sending machine-generated letters with antisemitic slogans since November 2020. Among other things, the Holocaust is denied in the pamphlets. The recipients are apparently randomly selected people.
According to the police, in addition to local politicians, public prosecutors, judges, employees of radio stations, but also organizations such as student associations or fraternities were written to. The antisemitic agitation is always the same. In the letters, the author calls for the content to be disseminated further.
The Dachau concentration camp memorial also received such a letter, said a spokesman for the Munich public prosecutor’s office. The antisemitism commissioner of the Bavarian judiciary based there is conducting the investigation.
Several of those addressed had filed a complaint. So far, the police are aware of a good 200 cases from all over Bavaria. “But we are assuming a much higher number of letters,” said an investigator commissioned in this case from the Fürstenfeldbruck Criminal Police Inspectorate.
