Right-wing police chats: Investigators want to check cell phone numbers en masse

Because several right-wing chat groups have been exposed to the police in Mülheim / Ruhr, investigators want to have 13,000 phone numbers checked.

This was confirmed by a spokesman for the NRW interior ministry on Tuesday for the German press agency. SWR and WAZ had previously reported.

According to media reports, the investigators of the special organizational structure “Janus” had sent the so-called mass data query to the state offices for the protection of the constitution, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the state criminal police offices (LKA) and also customs or police headquarters.

Everyone should check by Sunday to see if they have any of the numbers in their systems.

According to their cover letter, the special investigators were interested in whether the owners of the numbers had ever shown up in connection with politically motivated crime from the right.

The results of the large query were initially not known. According to its own information, the Ministry of the Interior requested a report from the North Rhine-Westphalian LKA on whether the measure was technically justified.

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Last year were at the police In Mülheim / Ruhr, which belongs to the Essen Presidium, several Whatsapp groups were exposed, some of them right-wing extremists and racist Contents have been exchanged. More than 20 police officers are still suspended.

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