Hetzner's peerings aren't the best, especially outside EU/US. Plus they recently intercepted traffic to one of their servers, an attack likely perpetrated by the German state.
They have regions outside of Germany too. And IIRC, the people being wire tapped were doing some illegal stuff.
Also it was a court order. All legit providers have to comply with pen register / trap and trace warrants.
Exactly, they were communicating in the russian language.
I mean, I have no idea what they were doing but they literally said (in a deleted HN comment) that what they were doing was illegal.