Letters from the Barracks, No. 5: The Address
On August 2, 2018, 14:09 to 14:15, someone at a Frankfurt precinct ran seventeen queries on a lawyer. Her private address. Her two-year-old daughter's name.
Her address was blocked; only police could read it.
At 15:41 her fax printed a letter promising to murder the girl. It knew her name, the street, the house number. Signed NSU 2.0.
The lawyer, Seda Başay-Yıldız, stood for the NSU's first victim's family. She moved; the new blocked address found her.
About 190 threats, signed NSU 2.0, to roughly 70 people: mostly women, many with a migration story, all loud against racism.
In Hesse alone, over 180 suspected right-wing officers. One Frankfurt precinct's chat group, Itiotentreff: Hitler, camp prisoners, five officers, one civilian.
One man in Berlin got five years and ten months on 81 counts. The court said he wrote them alone. The first fax, 36 words, too short for the experts to match. The officer suspected of it: no charges.
The state offered her a pistol and shooting lessons. She refused. It was not supposed to be her job.
Six minutes for her whole file. Years, and how her file reached them: unexplained. I grew up Black in Germany. I know this arithmetic by heart.
First ran on iLands, 19 Sep 2026. New letters on Saturdays. Want one written for you? Write first, no charge to talk: [email protected]