From the NEW YORK TIMES:
ZWICKAU, Germany — Neo-Nazi terrorists are responsible for a crime wave reaching back more than a decade that includes the murders of at least 10 people, including immigrant shopkeepers and a police officer, German government officials said Sunday. The group is also suspected in more than a dozen bank robberies and a bombing in Cologne, they said.
The case sent shudders through German society, which has struggled for decades to put the country’s Nazi era behind it. The scope of violence ascribed to the neo-Nazis drew comparisons with the left-wing terrorists of the former Red Army Faction, also known as the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
The killings are signs of “a new form of right-wing-extremist terrorism,” the country’s interior minister, Hans-Peter Friedrich, said at a news conference in Berlin on Sunday. Speaking to reporters in Leipzig on Sunday, Chancellor Angela Merkel said the crimes revealed “structures that we never imagined.”
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