Germany fails in migrant murders probe

A report finds Germany’s security and investigative agencies have “undoubtedly failed and grossly trivialized” in the case of a murder spree targeting mostly Turkish migrants.

German parliamentary panel chairman Sebastian Edathy said Thursday that German security services and domestic intelligence have for years been riddled with widespread institutional bias, preventing them from detecting crimes committed against Turkish and Greek migrants.
Edathy said: “We have concluded that we are dealing with massive institutional failures that resulted from a dramatic underestimation of the danger of the violent far-right in Germany.”
The committee filed an almost 1,000-page report condemning the country’s security services for associating terrorism only with far-left or Islamic groups, while underestimating far-right groups including the neo-Nazis, National Socialist Underground (NSU).
The report documented major failures and organizational flaws in determining the racist nature of NSU murders.
The report noted NSU members murdered 10 people from 2000 to 2007 without being caught.