Erfurt (dpa/th) - The left-wing parliamentary group in the Thuringian state parliament has demanded that the files on the right-wing extremist terrorist group NSU be withdrawn from the secret services. It was necessary to hand over the files that could help clarify the NSU complex to an archive in order to advance the processing, explained Left Party MP Katharina König-Preuss on Saturday. She was reacting to the "Ask the State" platform and Jan Böhmermann's "ZDF Magazin Royale", which, according to their own statements, had published Hesse NSU files classified as secret. The State Ministry of the Interior, the State Criminal Police Office and the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hesse initially did not comment on the process.
"We believe the public has the right to know what exactly is in those documents that were originally supposed to remain secret for more than a century," says the website set up for the alleged leak. According to König-Preuss, the documents reveal "that the secret service had a great deal of information about the arming of people from the right-wing scene, but did not use this to pull right-wing criminals out of circulation at an early stage".
The Hessian documents also contained a lot of information about Thuringian neo-Nazis, said König-Preuss according to the announcement. According to the MP, who was a member of the two NSU committees of the Thuringian state parliament, the fact that these were not handed over to the investigative committees of the federal states clearly shows the blocking of the parliamentary will to deal with the matter by the secret service. The NSU files of the Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution were initially classified as secret for 120 years, the time was later reduced to 30 years.
The so-called National Socialist Underground (NSU), with its core members Uwe Mundlos, Uwe Böhnhardt and Beate Zschäpe, who came from Thuringia, had been able to murder through Germany for years without being recognized. The victims were nine traders of Turkish and Greek origin and a German policewoman. The right-wing terrorists also carried out two bomb attacks, injuring dozens of people, and a number of bank robberies. Mundlos and Böhnhardt killed each other in Eisenach in early November 2011 to avoid arrest. Zschäpe was sentenced to life imprisonment as an accomplice - even if there was never any proof that she herself was at one of the crime scenes.
