Informants failed to out neo-Nazi terrorists
Intelligence services had at least three informants in the neo-Nazi scene linked to the terror group that went on to kill at least ten people, according to Der Spiegel magazine.
Intelligence services had at least three informants in the neo-Nazi scene linked to the terror group that went on to kill at least ten people, according to Der Spiegel magazine.
Officials estimate that there are roughly 25,000 far-right extremists among Germany's almost 82 million residents. Still, their views enjoy much more support than the numbers would suggest. Here, SPIEGEL ONLINE takes a close look at just how rooted right-wing extremism is in Germany.
BERLIN — The German government admitted Monday gross errors by the security services in dealing with a new brand of far-right "terrorism" after revelations of a decade-long killing spree by neo-Nazi
BERLIN — The cold-blooded murders of nine immigrant shopkeepers by neo-Nazis is an "inconceivable" crime for Germany and a national disgrace, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday.
LEIPZIG/BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives urged her on Tuesday to step up the fight against right-wing extremists following the chance discovery that a group of neo-Nazis had been murdering immigrants for years.
Merkel has described as a national disgrace the existence of a cell, called the National Socialist Underground, whose members are now suspected of killing between 2000 and 2007 at least nine immigrants, eight Turks and a Greek, and a police woman.
BERLIN — Germany said Wednesday it would launch a national database of neo-Nazis similar to a list of known Islamists in response to revelations of at least 10 murders by a far-right cell.
Reports published this week show that information about right-wing terrorism has long been available in Germany. Already in 1995, for instance, one could read in an intelligence report that right-wing extremists were planning to erect a terror network. Intelligence agencies in Thuringia, in eastern Germany, have been tracking various neo-Nazis for 15 years; some 20 files exist on the individuals now implicated in the series of murders of Turks and Greeks that has dominated German media this week.
Intelligence discrepancy
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The anti-Muslim extremist who confessed to a bombing and shooting massacre that killed 77 people in Norway has tried to declare himself a resistance leader at his first public court hearing but was quickly cut off by the judge.
Anders Behring Breivik was on Monday escorted by guards into an Oslo court room packed with dozens of reporters and spectators, including survivors of his rampage at a youth camp near the capital who were seeing him in person for the first time since the July 22 attack.
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