KIEL : Extremists on Trial
Two young men go on trial next Monday on charges of carrying out the bloodiest extremist attack since right-wing violence erupted in Germany in the wake of reunification nearly three years ago.
Self-styled neo-Nazi Michael Peters, 25, and 19-year-old Lars Christiansen face a variety of charges, including three counts of murder, in connection with the firebombing of a foreigners’ home in the northern city of Moelln last November that claimed three lives and injured nine.
The shock of the Moelln attack spurred the German government belatedly to crack down on right-wing extremist groups and led to candlelight marches in which hundreds of thousands of Germans expressed solidarity with the foreign population.
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