Right-wing terrorist cell in Germany

Alert DateNovember 4, 2011 Country: Germany Address: Eisenach and Zwickau General Type: Racist violence, Racist discourse Racism and discrimination phenomena: Extremism - organised Racist Violence
Groups affected / Interested in: Migrants

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Victims Gender N/A
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Perpetrators Data
Perpetrators Nationality/Ethnic Origin N/A
Perpetrator Gender Male, Female
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Perpetrators Number 3
Extremist/Organised Group Violence Yes

In November 2011, two related incidents brought right-wing terrorism in Germany into focus. Two men, U. Mundlos und U. Böhnhardt, committed suicide in a caravan (as first autopsy reports show) after committing a bank robbery in Eisenach. The two men lived together with a woman in a flat in Zwickau, which exploded the same day. The women, B. Zschäpe, turned herself in to the police shortly afterwards. The police recovered several weapons and materials on both sites, which testifies the “trio’s” involvement in right-wing extremist crimes. All three persons, who disappeared into the underground more than ten years ago, were members of the “Nazi underground” (Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund), a right-wing terrorist organisation. The terror cell produced a DVD, in which they claim to be responsible for a series of murders, which could not be solved and which have not been classed as right-wing motivated crimes by the authorities in the past. This has triggered a nationwide debate on right-wing terrorism in Germany and especially on the role of the Office for Protection of the Constitution, the domestic intelligence agency. The Office for Protection of the Constitution in Thuringia has been blamed for tremendous failure and shortcomings in this case. The on-going investigations, which have been assumed by the Federal Prosecutor’s office, reveal more and more details on right-wing terrorism and raise questions on the involvement of the Office for Protection of the Constitution and their paid informers within the far-right scene. The Zwickau terror cell is suspected to be responsible for murders of ten migrants between 2000 and 2006, who owned small businesses or worked as businessmen. The trio is further suspected for the murder of one police woman, fourteen bank robberies and at least one bomb attack.

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