The surviving member of a German neo-Nazi cell went on trial on Monday for a series of racist murders that scandalised Germany and exposed the security services’ inability or reluctance to recognise far-right crime. The chance discovery of the gang, the National Socialist Underground (NSU), which had gone undetected for more than a decade, has…
Boston-area authorities are investigating whether there was a connection to the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks in a gruesome triple murder involving at least two Jewish victims that may have been linked to slain Marathon bomb suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Prosecutors are taking a second look at the brutal murders of three men,…
Twenty years ago in the drab pre-fab housing blocks outside the east German town of Jena, swaggering youths gave Sieg-Heil salutes and flaunted their far-right views, as the structures of the only state they’d ever known crumbled around them. Among them were three local teenagers, Beate Zschaepe, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Boehnhardt, whose racist hatred…
Authorities have launched a massive investigation into the weekend killings of a Texas district attorney and his wife, which occurred months after an assistant prosecutor was shot dead in the same county. Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were discovered with fatal gunshot wounds at their home near Forney, Texas, on…
Pakistan has arrested a former militant leader in connection with the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, security officials said on Monday. Qari Abdul Hai, once a leader of the outlawed Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), was arrested on Sunday during a security crackdown in Pakistan’s biggest city, Karachi, said the officials….
A Toronto Jewish couple found dead in their Florida townhouse in January were asphyxiated and police said they have no motive in what they called a ‘senseless’ crime. Police Chief Dwayne Flournoy of Hallandale Beach, Fla., told a news conference that there were at least two perpetrators, and police have “no reason to believe the…
The man convicted of killing Jewish Capitol Hill intern Chandra Levy in 2001 plans to demand a new trial as reports swirl about questions about the case and secret court hearings. Lawyers for Ingmar Guandique say his conviction in the sensational case was “predicated on a lie” and he should get a new trial, the…
The mystery of the Chandra Levy murder has deepened as a judge refused to allow the press into hearings about a problem with a witness that could potentially overturn the conviction in the sensational case. Over the howls of national media organziations, Washington D.C. Superior Court Judge Gerald Fisher, maintained strict secrecy restrictions on the…
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