German police have arrested a man they suspect of sending threatening letters inspired by a shadowy neo-Nazi cell
that committed a string of racist murders in the 2000s, prosecutors said Tuesday.
German police said Tuesday they have launched
an investigation into a threatening letter, apparently from the far-right,
sent to a school named after a politician murdered by a neo-Nazi.
The key suspect in the killing of a pro-migrant politician has admitted to the gun murder, Germany's interior minister said Wednesday after a special parliamentary commission hearing.
Eight German police officers were injured late Saturday night as concert-goers at a far-right concert flung bottles and stones at them, as the country witnesses an upsurge in anti-immigrant protests.
Chemnitz is uneasy after a wave of racist violence following the deadly stabbing of a local man, allegedly by two migrants, stoking tension and tarnishing the eastern German city's image.
A suspected German neo-Nazi accused of erecting a headstone in a French field to honour a Nazi tank division has been charged with glorifying crimes against humanity, French prosecutors said
Thursday.
Germany's domestic spy agencies are extremely reluctant to reveal how much they knew about a neo-Nazi murder series that cost 10 people their lives. The Local talks to an expert who says that clarification and reform are long overdue.
For Beate Zschäpe, the woman at the heart of Germany's neo-Nazi murder trial which reaches a verdict on Wednesday, the dark path began in the far-right skinhead subculture that flared after the Berlin Wall fell.
Germany's far-right AfD party fired back
Thursday at criticism from church leaders charging them with taking on the
same "disreputable role they played" during the Nazi era.
More than 40 crimes were recorded at a far-right music festival in Thuringia over the weekend, including participants giving the Hitler salute. The state's left-wing leader now wants such festivals banned.
Update: The well-known founding member of an infamous left-wing terrorist group who later became a right-wing extremist has been arrested after he said he tried to seek asylum in Hungary.
A court on Wednesday sentenced members of a neo-Nazi group to up to five years in prison for forming a "terror organisation" that planned to attack a home for asylum seekers.
UPDATE: Germany's highest court on Tuesday threw out a bid to ban the far-right NPD party, arguing that the xenophobic fringe outfit is too insignificant to spell a real threat to the democratic order.
The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has recorded nearly 800 cases of crimes against refugee homes so far this year, German media reported on Wednesday.
A group of neo-Nazis calling itself the "Old School Society" went on trial Wednesday in Germany charged with forming a terror group that planned attacks against an asylum seeker home.
Six people suffered from smoke inhalation injuries early on Thursday morning after unknown attackers set fire to a hotel in Bingen, Rhineland-Palatinate.
