Berlin must condemn Neonazi murders

A group of Neonazis has been linked to a series of violent crimes in Germany: the murder of eight Turkish and one Greek shop owners  as well as a police officer, a bomb attack and several bank robberies. This time Germany's politicians must be more resolute in their condemnation of the culprits, the conservative Sunday paper Welt am Sonntag writes: "Twenty years ago the homes of Turks and for asylum seekers were burned. The scenes of these disgraceful acts were called Hoyerswerda, Rostock, Mölln and Solingen. But the fire was never put out, we simply didn't see the flames. The Turks living in Germany will now ask themselves whether this state is really able or willing to protect them. When at the beginning of the 1990s some of their families died in the attacks there was no grand gesture of solidarity. No chancellor or president ever visited the location of the attacks - and the immigrants took note of this. The onus is all the greater on Germany's top politicians now. The victims' next of kin expect support and an explanation. And we owe them both."

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