In Unterföhring have taken LKA and Cybercrime investigators, a 25-year-old computer science student from the district of Munich. He is the alleged author of a series of national incitement Postings on a German Social Media platform.

Unterföhring – Since the middle of April, 2020, in the case of the General Prosecutor's office of Bamberg built Central Cybercrime Bavaria and the Bavarian state office of criminal investigation against a student of computer science from the district of Munich, which posted in a social network, several anti-Semitic and racist posts, and occasionally thoughts for attacks using firearms and explosives informed of to have a. determine In one of the Posts he is supposed to have, according to the press report also stated, to have access to firearms.

Extensive knowledge to anonymizing and encryption techniques

after several weeks of intensive Research and investigation work of investigators, a concrete suspicion against the 25-year-old German nationals and realized. Due to his studies, the Accused has a wealth of knowledge to the anonymizing and encryption techniques, and was with VPN services, and Spoofing techniques to disguise his identity and his whereabouts are familiar with.

Extensive data material to ensure

On Wednesday, 27. May, was arrested the 25-Year-old in Unterföhring without resistance on a provisional basis. During the search of his shared apartments in Passau and in the district of Munich have been to a number of IT tools and comprehensive data to ensure material needs to be evaluated.

a monetary penalty or imprisonment of up to five years

The defendants are accused of several cases of sedition. The law provides for this purpose a monetary penalty or imprisonment of up to five years. In spite of the intensively used methods of obfuscation and anonymization it is managed by the specialists from the Bavarian state criminal police office and the Central office of Cybercrime, Bavaria, Anhalt to discover points for the perpetration of the students. The investigations are ongoing. Evidence that the Accused may in fact have firearms and explosives, were not found. At the present stage of the investigations, it is not expected that he planned to actually appropriate attacks.

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