Post date: Sep 02, 2013 5:26:18 PM
The German parliament holds a special session to discuss a report by a parliamentary committee into a neo-Nazi cell blamed for nine racist murders and calls it "a defeat of our democratic society"
BERLIN, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 2, 2013) (REUTERS) - The German parliament held a special session on Monday (September 2) to hear the findings of a parliamentary committee about a neo-Nazi cell blamed for nine racist murders.
All parties of the German parliament in a show of demonstrative unity have issued their recommendations after the spade of the racist murders and spoke of a "historically unprecedented disaster."The committee presented 47 suggestions for the investigation to be improved in the future.
"As the then president of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution said shortly after November 4, 2011 the busting of the neo-nazi cell is a defeat of the security forces," said the member of the parliamentary committee, Clemens Binninger.
"I widened that a bit and said as I want to say again today: The fact that people (were murdered) in our country because they are foreign or they worked for the state was more than a defeat of the security forces, it was a defeat of the entire society and must not happen ever again," he added.
The neo-Nazi cell (NSU) are responsible for the murders of eight Turks, one Greek and one police woman between the years 2000 and 2007. Their motif was supposed to be hatred of foreigners. The cell was busted in autumn of 2011 after two of the alleged members - Uwe Boehnhardt andUwe Mundlos - were found dead in a camper van. The alleged third member, Beate Zschaepe, is on trial at the Higher Regional Court in Munich.