mo4ch:>German State Criminal Police probing Frankfurt’s law enforcement over right-wing extremism – reports | Mo4ch News

The German State Criminal Police (LKA) has reportedly taken over a probe of five police officers suspected of sharing extremist content. The case is linked to threatening letters allegedly sent to a lawyer of Turkish descent.LKA is now leading the investigation into the respective officers, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Previous media reports said that four male and a female officer belonging to the city’s 1st Police District used WhatsApp messenger to post xenophobic messages and far-right imagery, with swastikas and pictures of Adolf Hitler among them.Read more All suspects were reportedly suspended from duty. The investigation involves house searches, as well as seizure of cell phones and hard drives.The probe is said to have been triggered after several threatening letters were sent to Seda Basay-Yildiz, a lawyer of Turkish descent who defended suspects of Islamist terrorism and the victims of far-right attacks.In one of the cases, she was on the legal team, represen…