Janine Wissler: threatened With death

Hesse experienced a sense of Déjà-vu: In the past few days, the parliamentary leader of the Left in the Hesse state Parliament, Janine Wissler, has received rep

Janine Wissler: threatened With death

Hesse experienced a sense of Déjà-vu: In the past few days, the parliamentary leader of the Left in the Hesse state Parliament, Janine Wissler, has received repeated threats after already in February, two received the goods. The E-Mails were signed "NSU 2.0", and Wissler is threatened with death. The emails contain data that are not public. Again, the safety of assert authorities and first and foremost, interior Minister Peter Beuth (CDU), to take the threats "very seriously" and to identify with high pressure. But what follows from this? In the case of the Frankfurt attorney-at-law Seda Basay-Yildiz, which had also received such threats, possibly from the same sender, it is determined for almost two years. Without that, the offender could be caught. And in both cases, there is evidence to suggest that the perpetrator could have come from the ranks of the police.

Julian Staib

Political correspondent for Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland with its headquarters in Wiesbaden.

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Countless times Wissler commented on the case of Basay-Yildiz, as well as to the murder of the Kassler government President Walter Lübcke. The threat to the own Person but you are silent publicly, probably out of concern of further Write. Also: How to Express your own concern politically?

The topic of right-wing extremism is in addition to the refugee policy, the focus of Wisslers work. Since 2008, the now 39-year-old politician, a member of the Landtag since 2009, she sits in front of your group. In the party Wissler is a member of the Trotskyist network, "Marx 21", for her very left of the course estimated, and as a possible future Federal Chairman called. In the Parliament, she is quick-witted and snippy, as recently in the debate on the new debt. Since it was the Plan of the government, well, twelve billion to take on new debt. The "attack on the debt-brake" is also a recognition of the work of the Left.

Date Of Update: 09 July 2020, 18:19