About a month ago, up in Kassel (northern Hessen), Walter Lubcke was shot and killed (execution style). Fairly close to the head, and the description by the cops make it sound 'awful personal'. Because Lubcke was dumped upon a great deal by right-wing enthusiasts for his pro-migration stand, there was immediately a suggestion of a assassination episode.
So they have DNA evidence and pinned this on one guy, and there is speculation of at least a second involved in some way.....so there is a conspiracy angle in the mind of the cops.
Why the hype? It comes to three issues.
1. Lubcke angered a number of anti-migration folks with a direct statement that if they didn't go along with the pro-stance by the CDU-SPD coalition, then maybe they (the Germans complaining) should leave Germany. Lubcke wasn't the only political figure to make blunt statements like this, and there's this possibility that a group has been motivated to target these political folks. Nothing yet, in this case, suggests multiple targets though.
2. Historically, there's two periods where German politicians were shot for their positions or tough talk (in the latter part of the 1800s and in the 1920 to 1930 period). For some, there's a fear about starting a trend.
3. Once you establish a link between the shooter, and his right-wing extremism....then you can use the logic to pursue monitoring of the AfD political party. It's doubtful that any real connection exists, but you can convince judges that maybe such a link exists.
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