Ten murders and no one noticed?
A shocked Germany is asking how a neo-Nazi gang could carry out a campaign of terror for more than a decade. The Local’s media roundup looks at the reaction on Monday.
While detectives are scrambling to uncover helpers of the self-styled National Socialist Underground (NSU), it is becoming increasing clear that the group belied the stereotype of the stupid, thuggish neo-Nazi – they managed to stay hidden while hoarding weapons and conducting a slow-motion killing spree across Germany.
Those investigating the murders of nine Turkish and Greek people in small shops across Germany failed to take the possibility of a racist motive seriously, focusing instead on possible debt problems or crime connections of the dead men.
Now the question is being posed of how the authorities failed to link the murders – as well as whether the focus on Islamist terrorism since 2001 led intelligence services to take their eye off the ball regarding the potential for far-right violence.
The right-wing daily Die Welt expressed astonishment that a neo-Nazi terror cell could operate in Germany unhindered for years. Full story...
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A shocked Germany is asking how a neo-Nazi gang could carry out a campaign of terror for more than a decade. The Local’s media roundup looks at the reaction on Monday.
While detectives are scrambling to uncover helpers of the self-styled National Socialist Underground (NSU), it is becoming increasing clear that the group belied the stereotype of the stupid, thuggish neo-Nazi – they managed to stay hidden while hoarding weapons and conducting a slow-motion killing spree across Germany.
Those investigating the murders of nine Turkish and Greek people in small shops across Germany failed to take the possibility of a racist motive seriously, focusing instead on possible debt problems or crime connections of the dead men.
Now the question is being posed of how the authorities failed to link the murders – as well as whether the focus on Islamist terrorism since 2001 led intelligence services to take their eye off the ball regarding the potential for far-right violence.
The right-wing daily Die Welt expressed astonishment that a neo-Nazi terror cell could operate in Germany unhindered for years. Full story...
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