Berlin-Mitte. Some of those present are wearing beige trench coats, floppy hats, mirrored sunglasses. In the entrance area of the Maritim Hotel: light blue garbage bags filled with shredded files. Red and white tape cordoning off a symbolic area between parking posts, cars and curb: the “Crime Scene Constitutional Protection.” Representatives of the federal intelligence services meet in the hotel at the invitation of the “Federal Ministry of the Interior” – and talk about the “rights of the intelligence services as part of a symposium.” It is November 3, 2016 and exactly five years ago the right-wing extremist terror network “NSU” had unmasked itself. In the months that followed, institutional and personal involvement of the German domestic intelligence service and its federal offshoots in the murders of the “NSU” became public – to an unprecedented extent and to this day, in many cases, not completely clearable.
One example of many is the role of Andreas Temme , a member of the Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, in the murder of Halit Yozgat, a citizen of Kassel, in 2006. We have already presented the film “77sqm_9:26”, which meticulously reconstructs and reworks this murder.
The activists of the group “Blackbox Verfassungsschutz” demand the “most brutal possible clarification” of these murders and entanglements. With public protest actions like the “Tatort Verfassungsschutz” (Crime Scene: Office for the Protection of the Constitution), the specialist group for political education of the “Naturfreunde Berlin” (Friends of Nature Berlin) wants to increase public pressure on the responsible, state agencies – and thus ” bring the necessary light into the connection between state institutions and NSU (…)”.
Further actions of the group are documented on their website, where you can find extensive background information, press reports and an overview of those civil society initiatives that are involved in the investigation of the racist murder series.