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German spy chief quits in neo-Nazi files scandal
Excerpt from: German spy chief quits in neo-Nazi files scandal
The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence service resigned on Monday after admitting that his agency had shredded files on a neo-Nazi cell whose killing spree targeting immigrants rocked the country late last year. Heinz Fromm’s resignation is the latest in a series of embarrassing setbacks for Germany’s security services over their handling of the “National Socialist Underground” (NSU), which went undetected for more than a decade despite its murder of 10 people, mostly ethnic Turkish immigrants. An interior ministry spokesman confirmed that Fromm would quit his post, which he...Published By: Liverpool Antifascists - Monday, 2 July, 2012