German authorities widened an inquiry into an underground neo-Nazi cell accused of a series of murders over the last decade, in what German chancellor Angela Merkel called a “disgrace for Germany”.
A suspect, identified as 37-year-old Holger G, was taken into custody on Sunday near Hanover, and is accused of having ties to a group calling itself the “National Socialist Underground”, federal prosecutors said in a statement.
German investigators believe the cell is responsible for at least 10 murders across the country from 2000 to 2006, in which eight people of Turkish origin as well as a Greek man were killed. The murders took place in cities such as Nuremberg, Munich, Hamburg and Dortmund. – (Bloomberg)