German neo-Nazis threaten Muslim candidates...

With days to go until elections, prosecutors said Tuesday they had launched a probe after a neo-Nazi party sent letters to election candidates with immigrant backgrounds telling them to leave Germany.

The letter, signed "officer for the deportation of foreigners", was presented as a "notice" to several candidates of Turkish background ahead of the September 27 general election.

According to one of the recipients, Green politician Ozcan Mutlu, the two-paged letter contained a "five-point plan" for "moving foreigners gradually back to their home countries".

Officials are investigating whether charges can be brought for inciting racial hatred, Michael von Hagen from the Berlin prosecutors' office told the Tagesspiegel daily. More...

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