Wednesday, November 6, 2013

No reports in English language online media

This has been the most frequent closing line, in German of course, of the Zeit Online media blog about the Munich, Germany, trial of the surviving neo-Nazi group accused of multiple murders in the span of seven years from 2000 to 2007.

We have been following the blog and decided to provide a brief summary of today's blog of day 51 of the trial because it highlights the plight of the victims' families.

Remember, the victims were immigrants, and the press articles quoted in the Zeit blog describe in disturbing detail how the police ignored the families questions about potential neo-Nazi roots of the murders. An author in Spiegel online is quoted as asking "can this be anything other than an unquestioned, all out suspicion of non-Germans" [our translation].

One widow explained at length how the police searched her apartment using drug dogs. No drugs were found but the rumor mill began to swirl. The victim's daughter recounted how people in the street would describe her as the daughter of the man who had sold drugs to teenagers.

Just days ago, an expert witness said that the official statement of the two main suspects in the murder series having committed suicide did not hold up to the facts because of the large number of bullet casings found in the burnt out RV where the two were found.

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