In a letter that came with a empty cartridge, it said: “You don’t want to act, so we’ll do it! The small Christmas present attached should serve as a warning that we have an eye on you and your harmful actions.”
It also says: “If you continue to do nothing, we will not be responsible for what may happen.” The authors of the letter call themselves RAZ (Revolutionary Action Cells) and MIEZE (Militant Cell).
Skudelny, a member of the Free Democratic Party, had made the letter public on her Facebook page. “You can’t intimidate me. I’ll defend myself ”, the politician said. She added that she would “never leave the country because of people who want to use violence and fear instead since their arguments would never convince anyone”.
In 2011, left-wing extremists sent an 8mm caliber cartridge to the then Federal Minister of the Interior, Hans-Peter Friedrich (CSU). At the time, the RAZ justified its threat in a letter of confession published on the Internet, saying that the interior minister was an “outstanding personality” for “state repression”.
The then deputy federal attorney Rainer Grießbaum as well as extremism researchers Uwe Backes and Eckhard Jesse received corresponding threats with cartridges of the same caliber in 2011.