While the then Speaker of the Chaos Computer Club, Andy Mueller-Maguhn and the relatives of the dead believe Floricic was murdered, Schroeder's research findings suggest how the results of the police investigation concluded that Floricic committed suicide.
[1] On 12 November 2008, Berlin police searched Schroeder's home and confiscated his computer.
The search warrant was based on the suspicion of an offense "aiding and abetting access" to material published by people "inciting racial hatred [and] denying the Holocaust" - a criminal offense in Germany.
[2] Schroeder is co-founder of the nonprofit association German Privacy Foundation (GPF).
The GPF provides information under the statutes of secure communications on the Internet and wants to ensure that the topics of encryption and anonymity on the net are shown better in the media.