Germany to compensate families of neo-Nazi killing victims
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Xinhua, November 21, 2011
Relatives of the victims in the recently disclosed neo-Nazi killings, which Chancellor Angela Merkel called a national shame, will get compensation, an official said on Sunday in Berlin.
"We owe the victims' families a completely new assessment," German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said, expressing that the families would be compensated correspondingly, as a clear signal of government solidarity.
In addition, German parliament, chancellery, and presidency will hold a national commemorative ceremony to grieve over the victims, a move aimed at soothing over spreading agitations over a neo-Nazi extremists' serial murdering of some 10 foreigners and police people and remained astonishingly scot-free for the past 10 years .
The notorious far-right extremist cell known as the National Socialist Underground, a resurgent neo-Nazi clan, had allegedly murdered some 9 people of foreign origins in Germany, of whom 8 Turks and one Greek, in addition to a policewoman.
The fact that this criminal gang came to light only accidentally as two of its members committed suicide has aroused widespread worries about the police negligence.
The bodies of two members of the group -- Uwe Boehnhardt, 34, and Uwe Mundlos, 38, were found by the police in a burnt camping car, while the third member, 36-year-old Beate Zschaepe, surrendered herself into police early this month.
Further investigation are still underway to ransack other accomplices involved in this notorious xenophobic serial killings, which has significantly tarnished the German image.
