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November 23, 2011, Wednesday
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NEW details emerged yesterday about a small band of ruthless neo-Nazis suspected in at least 10 killings, including indications they knew a policewoman they are thought to have slain.
Federal police president Joerg Ziercke said the family of the policewoman, Michele Kiesewetter, killed in 2007, had at one point tried to rent a pub in a small eastern German town, but a man connected to the neo-Nazi group instead got the lease.
Ziercke said at the moment further details of the circumstances and connections remained unclear and were a focus of the ongoing investigation, the dapd news agency reported.
Still, Germany's top security official, Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, was quoted in Bild newspaper as saying it now appeared at least that "the policewoman was not killed coincidentally in 2007 by the neo-Nazis."
In addition to Kiesewetter, the group is suspected of killing eight people of Turkish origin, one person with Greek roots and is being investigated further as possibly being behind several other crimes.
Two people have been arrested: a suspected co-founder of the group - 36-year-old Beate Zschaepe - and an alleged supporter, identified as 37-year-old Holger G.
Two other suspected founding members, Uwe Boehnhardt, 34, and Uwe Mundlos, 38, appear to have killed themselves earlier this month as police closed in on the mobile home where they were hiding after pulling off a bank heist, Ziercke said.
In the mobile home, investigators found Kiesewetter's service pistol, and that of her fellow officer who was injured in the same attack.
In Parliament yesterday, Speaker Norbert Lammert acknowledged the widespread criticism of authorities for apparently letting the gang slip through their hands. "We are ashamed that the German security services neither found nor stopped the group over the years," he said.
Federal police president Joerg Ziercke said the family of the policewoman, Michele Kiesewetter, killed in 2007, had at one point tried to rent a pub in a small eastern German town, but a man connected to the neo-Nazi group instead got the lease.
Ziercke said at the moment further details of the circumstances and connections remained unclear and were a focus of the ongoing investigation, the dapd news agency reported.
Still, Germany's top security official, Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich, was quoted in Bild newspaper as saying it now appeared at least that "the policewoman was not killed coincidentally in 2007 by the neo-Nazis."
In addition to Kiesewetter, the group is suspected of killing eight people of Turkish origin, one person with Greek roots and is being investigated further as possibly being behind several other crimes.
Two people have been arrested: a suspected co-founder of the group - 36-year-old Beate Zschaepe - and an alleged supporter, identified as 37-year-old Holger G.
Two other suspected founding members, Uwe Boehnhardt, 34, and Uwe Mundlos, 38, appear to have killed themselves earlier this month as police closed in on the mobile home where they were hiding after pulling off a bank heist, Ziercke said.
In the mobile home, investigators found Kiesewetter's service pistol, and that of her fellow officer who was injured in the same attack.
In Parliament yesterday, Speaker Norbert Lammert acknowledged the widespread criticism of authorities for apparently letting the gang slip through their hands. "We are ashamed that the German security services neither found nor stopped the group over the years," he said.
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