New errors revealed in neo-Nazi murders

BERLIN - Anatolia News Agency

A German state’s Interior Ministry ignored a call in 2000 from the domestic intelligence agency’s state branch asking for a far-right group to be closed down for allegedly having ties to a neo-Nazi group suspected of killing 10 people, including eight Turks.

Thuringia’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution requested in 2000 that the state’s Interior Ministry shut down a neo-Nazi cell under the far-right “Thüringer Heimatschutz” (Thuringia homeland security) group for connections to the National Socialist Underground (NSU), which is suspected of killing eight Turkish men and a Greek citizen between 2000 and 2006 as well as a policewoman in 2007 in attacks across the country.

Helmut Röwer, former head of Thuringia state’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution, told a research commission of the Thuringia State Assembly investigating the neo-Nazi killings that they had called on the state’s Interior Ministry to close down the “Kamaradschaft Jena” cell under the “Thüringer Heimatschutz” group for neo-Nazi ties to NSU.