Walter Lübcke, an elected regional advocate for the cause of migrants, has been shot dead in his home with a bullet in the head on June 1, 2019.
A neo-nazi German confessed on Wednesday during his trial that he killed an elected regional advocate for the cause of migrants, a murder which had shocked Germany and raised awareness of the growing threat of violence by the extreme right. “I’ve pulled” on Walter Lübcke, acknowledged Stephan Ernst, 46 years, according to a statement read by his lawyer.
READ ALSO >> The far-right German booming
He is accused by the public prosecutor have thrown on the elected “his hatred of xenophobic” and shot dead in his home with a bullet in the head on June 1, 2019. Stephan Ernst had initially confessed to the murder before retracting and bringing charges against his presumed accomplice, Markus Hartmann. In his statement, he has apologised to the family of the elect. “I know, that Hartmann and I have done will always be inexcusable.” “It was cruel and cowardly”, he acknowledged, “but I can’t change anything”. “Nobody should die because he has a different opinion”, he said.
summer Offer : Take advantage of the special offer 2 months for€ 1 I would like to subscribe
The spectre of terrorism from the extreme right
The murder of this elected official, a member of the conservative party of Angela Merkel, has awakened the spectre of terrorism “brown”. Under-evaluated in the year 2000 by the authorities in spite of the murders of eight Turkish immigrants, a Greek and a policewoman German by a small group of neo-nazi, NSU, the threat is now perceived as a critical challenge to internal security.
ALSO READ >> After the exclusion of an influential neo-nazi, the extreme German right at the edge of the explosion
In October 2019, a sympathizer of the extreme right had failed to commit a massacre on the day of Yom Kippur in a synagogue in Halle, in eastern Germany. He finally returned her weapon on a woman passing by and killed a man in a restaurant frequented by immigrants.
Read our complete file
neo-nazis
In Germany, the controversy mounts on the links between the police and the extreme right in Germany : the ministry of the Interior banned a small group of nostalgic of Adolf Hitler In Germany, the authorities have thwarted a project of attack on the model of Christchurch
In February, a man has killed nine people of foreign origin in two bars of Hanau, near Frankfurt, and then committed suicide. Group suspected of preparing attacks, xenophobic or anti-semitic are regularly dismantled.
