Chancellor Merkel Wants to Ban Anti-Immigrant Party

From McClatchy:

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Monday for an anti-immigrant party popular among German neo-Nazis to be banned after investigators uncovered what she described as “far-right terrorism.”

A series of unsolved murders, bombings, maimings and bank robberies have been gradually connected over the past four days with a trio who called themselves the National Socialist Underground.

“That is a disgrace. That shames Germany. We will do everything possible to investigate it,” said Merkel in Leipzig, addressing a conference of her party, the Christian Democratic Union.

With Merkel’s blessing, senior officials drafted a resolution that would make it CDU policy to resume legal efforts to outlaw the National Democratic Party, or NPD, an anti-immigrant group which has won seats in state assemblies but never in the federal parliament. Read more…

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