Germany (catch all, incl. terrorism)

[Firn]

It seems that the various agencies were not only blind on the right eye, but also deaf on the right ear.

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/i...-11532117.html

„Dönerkiller“ heißt der [2010] Song aus der CD „Adolf Hitler lebt!“, in dem die Band die Mordserie an acht türkischen und einem griechischen Geschäftsmann klar als zusammenhängende, ausländerfeindliche Taten eines „Dönerkillers“ feiert und sich daran ergötzt, dass die Behörden einem Phantom nachjagen: „Neun mal hat er es jetzt schon getan“, die Ermittler „drehen durch, weil man ihn nicht findet. Er kommt, er tötet und verschwindet“.

"Gigi und die braunen Stadtmusikanten" ( somewhat a pun on the Bremer Stadtmusikanten) made a song in 2010 which it was taken for granted that the various killing were committed by a Dönerkiller which spreads fear in the Kebabs (turkish fast food rest.) which was not sated with 9 (victims). This band is said to be among the most prominent extreme right-wing bands.

Die mythisch-musikalische Überhöhung der drei Mitglieder der Terrorzelle wiederum hatte schon kurz nach ihrem Abtauchen in die Illegalität begonnen. In einem Lied aus dem Jahr 1999 thematisiert das rechtsextremistische Duo „Eichenlaub“ das Verschwinden der drei. „Eichenlaub“ war direkt mit der Kameradschaft „Thüringer Heimatschutz“ verbunden, aus der Böhnhardt, Mundlos und Frau Z. kamen. „Ihr hattet wohl keine andere Wahl“, heißt es in dem Lied. Und: „Der Kampf geht weiter, für unser deutsches Vaterland.“

A small band "Eichenlaub" (Oak being the "German" tree) linked to the Thuringian Homeguard from which the three suspects come, sung about them and their disappearing. "You had probably no other chance", and "The fight goes on, for our German fatherland".

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Of course it is pretty difficult to know if rumours by good comrades caused dear Gigi to write such a wonderful song or if it was just hopeful speculation. And with hindsight it is easy to connect the dots. But it shows that it was thinkable to view the seemingly unlinked killings in such a specific context.

It really is, as Fuchs wrote, a big scandal and pretty hard to argue that it was a massive failure on many levels. Maybe the most lentinent view on the whole business is that the Verfassungsschutz felt that they had such good info about the various Neonazis groups, especially with the many V-men, that they could do nothing of such scale without their knowledge.

P.S: This guy featured in the propaganda material compiled by the trio.