Overview
- The Berlin public prosecutor discontinued the case, stating the initial suspicion of incitement to hatred was not substantiated.
- The investigation stemmed from a report concerning a statement Reichelt posted on X on April 1.
- A complaint received by prosecutors in Krefeld was forwarded to Berlin, where it arrived in mid-May for review.
- Authorities examined the matter under the Legalitätsprinzip, which obliges prosecutors to assess credible reports of certain offenses.
- Reichelt and his attorney welcomed the closure, criticized the probe as unnecessary, and called the decision a correction of an earlier error.