Dornbirn – While evaluating mobile phones of four 15-year-olds, investigators came across Hitler images, swastikas and antisemitic incitement.

The police reported on Monday that while investigating an entirely different matter, criminal investigators came across right-wing extremist content on WhatsApp messages of the cellphone of a 15-year-old teen.

The boy had spread pictures and videos on the Internet. Based on the contents on his cellphone, the investigators initiated a preliminary investigation into the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations and incitement of the masses. The officials also investigate three other adolescents. As part of a judicially ordered search of these accused several mobile phones have been secured. Their evaluation is still ongoing.

According to the police, the young people were not arrested, and there was no evidence that they are part of the right-wing scene or members of a corresponding organization.

The police spokesman, Christian Eckel, told on Thursday that Hitler images and swastikas have been sent. Antisemitic images with inscriptions, which can be criminally assessed as incitement of the masses, were found on their phones”.

In December, students from a school in the district of Dornbirn spread National Socialist statements and distributed right-wing extremist content via social media. “They used the Nazi salute at school and Nazi pictures were sent on Whatsapp”, the spokeswoman Susanne Dilp told in January to Allgäu.

It was not until the beginning of April, that a neo Nazi incident occurred in an Oberallgäu grammar school. On a study trip to Munich students played music of a neo-nazi band from the 1990s. In an extremely racist piece, according to one student, several classmates would have sung so loud that it was heard by the entire bus.

In June, a 14-year-old also distributed perfidious antisemitic and racist memes to fellow students in Lower Allgäu. According to the police, this is a separate case. The State Prosecutor of Memmimgen assessed that the Nazi quotes in this case were not justiciable.

Currently a case is pending at the District Court of Kaufbeuren, where right-wing propaganda has been distributed among students.