Notes on blackmail plot thicken

A week ago it was announced that the german SPD chancellor candidate for the general elections next weekend, Peer Steinbrueck, was blackmailed. The blackmailers' demand was the object of his chancellorship . The letter had been sent to the wife of the chancellor candidate, and the fees were directed primarily against her. The point of blackmail seems to be targeted very precisely, because Mr Steinbrueck's wife publicly said that she could stand it no longer how her husband is handled in the media. The chancellor candidate himself there upon had tears in his eyes in front of cameras. Now it has been known that the blackmailer called familiy Steinbruck several times at home by phone just before the ransom note was delivered, but at this time he was not yet admitting that he was the blackmailer himself. The blackmailer has probably tried to prevent that the blackmail action should get to public. After the phone calls , the couple made the blackmailing publicly known. Yesterday the reliable german newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung revealed the identity of the blackmailer. Surprisingly it is ex-manager of Deutsche Post. The journalists wrote about confidential sources who said that the blackmailing action had been planned and discussed several weeks before the blackmailing-letter was sent. Today now leaders of the biggest german opposition Party SPD, like Ralf Stegner and party leader Sigmar Gabriel have joined the presumption that a planned conspiracy may be behind the blackmail-letter. Who may stay behind that action in favor of chancellor Angela Merkels reelection?