Germany Probes Hundreds Of Alleged Unsolved Neo-Nazi Killings

[Sasha]

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities are investigating whether hundreds of unsolved killings and attempted killings over the past two decades were committed by neo-Nazis.
The 746 cases with no known suspects involved 849 victims and took place between 1990 and 2011. The period spans the time between German reunification and the discovery of a neo-Nazi cell suspected of committing 10 murders.
That prompted a fundamental review of how German security services deal with far-right crimes.
Interior Ministry spokesman Hendrik Loerges confirmed the probe first reported Wednesday by Germany's Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung newspaper.
Independent researchers and anti-racism campaigners have long criticized the criteria used by German authorities to classify a crime as being motivated by far-right ideology.
Currently some 63 cases during the 21-year period are classified as far-right crimes.

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4383632.html

[helot]

Independent researchers and anti-racism campaigners have long criticized the criteria used by German authorities to classify a crime as being motivated by far-right ideology.

Does anyone have any information on this?

[Remus Bleys]

I wonder if they will actually prosecute any of this, and how many are going to actually get convicted.

[Sasha]

Does anyone have any information on this?

Only racial attacks and then only with clear racist slogans shouted etc are labeled as extreme-right political violence, attacks on anti-fascists, lgtb's, trade-unionists and especially the homeless are almost never given the recognition of political violence.

[John Lennin]

Does anyone have any information on this?

The german police tends to be blind on the rigth eye when it comes to underground-nazism. A perfect example is the NSU case.
In short: Between the years 2000 and 2006 the nazi terrorist group "Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund" (National Socialist Underground) NSU killed at least 9 immigrants and one german policewoman, placed several bombs and robbed 14 banks. The german police wasn't able to link all these crimes until a bank robbery went wrong and two members of the NSU killed themselves and a third member turned herself in.
Altough the police saw a connection between the killings because the same weapon was used all the time nazis were never really suspected for whatever reason.

[theghostofnestor]

The german police tends to be blind on the rigth eye when it comes to underground-nazism. A perfect example is the NSU case.
In short: Between the years 2000 and 2006 the nazi terrorist group "Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund" (National Socialist Underground) NSU killed at least 9 immigrants and one german policewoman, placed several bombs and robbed 14 banks. The german police wasn't able to link all these crimes until a bank robbery went wrong and two members of the NSU killed themselves and a third member turned herself in.
Altough the police saw a connection between the killings because the same weapon was used all the time nazis were never really suspected for whatever reason.

dont forget the allegation that a secret service officer (not sure what they are called sorry) was present during one of the killings