Hundreds of unsolved killings and attempted killings in Germany over the past two decades may have been committed by far-right extremists, officials said on Wednesday.
The stark admission comes two years after a series of murders German police had linked to immigrant criminal groups. Now, it turns out, that the killings may have been the work of a secretive neo-Nazi group.
The case has prompted a fundamental review of Germany's security services, including the way they classify crimes.
An Interior Ministry spokesman said authorities have completed an initial review of more than 3,300 unsolved cases between 1990 and 2011, looking for signs of a possible far-right motive.
"In a total of 746 cases across Germany there were leads in that direction," Hendrik Loerges told reporters in Berlin. Full story...
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The stark admission comes two years after a series of murders German police had linked to immigrant criminal groups. Now, it turns out, that the killings may have been the work of a secretive neo-Nazi group.
The case has prompted a fundamental review of Germany's security services, including the way they classify crimes.
An Interior Ministry spokesman said authorities have completed an initial review of more than 3,300 unsolved cases between 1990 and 2011, looking for signs of a possible far-right motive.
"In a total of 746 cases across Germany there were leads in that direction," Hendrik Loerges told reporters in Berlin. Full story...
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