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Majority of German Turks believe state supported neo-Nazis

Staff | Istanbul | Jan 11

Today's Zaman - German state organs have provided varying degrees of support to a recently uncovered neo-Nazi ring in that country, according to an overwhelming majority of Turkish immigrants living in Germany, a recent survey has found.

The survey comes some two months after the discovery of a neo-Nazi ring that was responsible for at least 10 murders. Nine of them were immigrants; eight being of Turkish origin, the other one Greek. The 10th victim was a police officer. As the investigation into the terrorist ring unfolded it became evident that Germany's federal intelligence agency, the Organization for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), had been watching every move of the gang and had agents among the gang members. An investigation is under way into the murders, but the findings hint that the BfV possibly knew about some of the murders. It is now known that a BfV agent was present at the scene of one of the murders when it happened, and some German authors have suggested that the same agent might be the one who pulled the trigger. It is also known that the neo-Nazi gang was active since 2000 and authorities in Germany are now re-investigating all murder cases where the victims were immigrants that occurred after this date.


Michael Collins January 12, 2012 - 4:38am
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What does it take?

Merkel's government should fall and there should be prosecutions for those who observed neo Nazi activities but did nothing, as indicated in the story. But her government won't fall and nobody will be held to account. We are on a steep decline here in the West, one that reflects the vulgar, amoral types in charge, not the people.
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Michael Collins January 12, 2012 - 4:44am
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It's a quagmire indeed

"The state" as whole may be a bit far fetched but "some of it's agencies" representing the state seems true.

The role of the -Federal- Organization for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) and even more so the role of the State Organisations for the Protection of the Constitution (every of the 16 German States got it's own, within the Body of it's State Department for Interior Affairs) is murky and has to be looked at thoroughly.

The connections between the different Verfassungsschutzämter and the neo-Nazi groups and in particular the NPD ("National Democratic Party"), which has some seats in some of the states Parliaments, are highly dangerous.

Mind you: The last attempt by the German federal gouvernment to get the NPD banned as a political party on local and federal level failed right at the beginning, because the Federal Constitutional Court found that the leading circles of the NPD where full of people that where paid informants of the Verfassungsschutz. It's a quagmire.

woset January 13, 2012 - 5:42am
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