Overview

• The higher court found the February 28 search warrant unlawful, citing no concrete initial suspicion and noting that a prosecutor’s application was not documented in the file.
• According to the ruling and reporting, the investigating judge later acknowledged having had no contact with the prosecution, which the court described as rechtsstaatlich bedenklich.
• Police executed the search on April 1 at the home of Juso local leader Nela Kruschinski, then 17, seizing her laptop, phone and notebooks; she denies involvement in the graffiti.
• The warrant was issued by the Amtsgericht Arnsberg and signed by a judge on probation; its director, Charlotte Merz, denies any involvement and was officially said to have learned of the case on September 1.
• SPD leaders demanded a thorough explanation of police, prosecutorial and judicial handling, and the separate vandalism investigation against Kruschinski continues.