3 arrested as Germany cracks down on neo-Nazi extremists

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A helmet with a swastika, a pistol, the replica of a rifle and cartridges which have been seized lie on a table during a press conference of the police in Cologne, Germany, Wednesday.

Three suspected neo-Nazis were arrested in Germany early Wednesday after 100 security officers raided the offices of a right-wing political party and the homes of more than a dozen alleged extremists, police told NBC News.

The raids in the northwestern cities of Radevormwald, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal and Essen were part of a new investigation focusing on leaders of a far-right group called “Freundeskreis Rade,” police said.


The three suspects were due to be brought before a judge later on Wednesday. Police and state prosecutors allege they have been linked to "significant crimes."

The right-wing "Pro NRW" is a local party in the state of North-Rhein Westphalia (NRW).

Authorities were heavily criticized after failing to connect an underground neo-Nazi terror cell to a 10-year killing spree in which a German police officer, one Greek immigrant and nine Turkish immigrants were murdered.

A retired teacher's courageous crusade: Tackling neo-Nazi hate

German police and intelligence officials failed to investigate possible racist motives in the case despite receiving an FBI report in 2007 showing that the 11 victims had been killed because of their ethnicity, Der Spiegel news magazine reported this week.

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What are with these people?

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Reply#1 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:40 AM EDT

Just hate looking for a cause to attach itself to. From the Klan to the Black Panthers the tune is always the same.

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#1.1 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:45 AM EDT

navyvet98, likening the Black panthers to the KKK is like saying MADD is like drunk drivers, or Nazis are like Jews, or Government officials are like tea baggers, Apartheid govt is like ANC.

I guess you don't need a very good SAT score to get into the Navy.

Nazis, KKK are strictly hate organizations. Black Panthers were formed by an oppressed people as a self-defense organization.

  • 6 votes
#1.2 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:32 AM EDT
Comment author avatarNO-BAMA12Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

The Black Panthers arent a hate group? Regardless of the reasons the group was originally formed they are indeed a hate group. Just listen and read their rhetoric.

  • 11 votes
#1.3 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:09 AM EDT

David, you're joking, right? The Black Panthers were the furthest from a self-defense organization as possible. They were founded as a revolutionary leftist organization with a provocative rhetoric, militant posture. The group leaders espoused socialist, and communist doctorines.

  • 10 votes
#1.4 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:12 AM EDT

Let's see..... come up with something recent about the Black Panther's not being a self-defense orginization: How about putting a $10K bounty on Zimmerman? That sounds more like taking initiative than self-defense.

  • 3 votes
#1.5 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:17 AM EDT

It sounds like these people were targeted due to political affiliation. Whatever their personal views unless a law was broken, then Germany is perscuting people for their political standing. This is what Obama is trying to incite in the US. He speaks very anti Republican.

  • 4 votes
#1.6 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:22 AM EDT

"Neo-nazi extremists." Another fine headline from the Department of Redundancy Department.

  • 4 votes
#1.7 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:44 AM EDT

Hang'em with piano wire.. Ignance is Krautsville... String'em up!

    #1.8 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:54 AM EDT

    As economies spiral downward, look for more rather than less of this sort of thing. When economies can no longer provide entitlements and/or jobs, people usually place the blame on immigrants and violence is sure to follow.

    A good part of this problem is caused by allowing unfettered immigration putting significant strain on the host country's resources, not to mention the inevitable clash of cultures.

    • 5 votes
    #1.9 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:17 AM EDT

    Though this idea of " the only good____" may be misapplied and even horribly brutal in many cases.. " "the only good nazi is a dead nazi" seems to hit the spot..

    • 4 votes
    #1.10 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:32 AM EDT

    The article for some reason did not list the murders; the victims have names, and the article could have named them. There was a significant cover-up. The displayed weapons were only emblems; the real weapons were different.

    • 1 vote
    #1.11 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:28 PM EDT

    Stupid is as stupid does. This is the reason my family moved our businesses from Germany almost 100 yrs ago. In Germany, it's not the most intelligent that rise. It's the loudest.

    • 1 vote
    #1.12 - Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:22 PM EDT

    martin bart

    Schindler was a nazi but a good one. nittyahoo is a zionist but a bad one.

    It is insulting to suggest a good nazi is a dead nazi, likewise it is also insulting to suggest a good zionist is a dead zionist.

      #1.13 - Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:50 PM EDT
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      Let's hope the German government pursues Muslim extremists with even more diligence!! We all know that not only were the people who planted the bomb on the Pan Am plane which exploded over Scotland living in Germany..they were also receiving "state assistance" and living in low income housing provided by the German government!!!

      NO FREE TRADE WITHOUT FULL EMPLOYMENT!!!

      • 3 votes
      Reply#2 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:55 AM EDT

      Way to stay on topic Ric. You forgot to blame Obama, the Kenyan Muslim who wants to take your guns, and let all illegals into your country.

      Let me guess, you're a teabagger?

      • 4 votes
      #2.1 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:35 AM EDT

      Sorry David...not a Demo or a Repub... the two plutocratic parties....but a confirmed Catholic Socialist!!

        #2.2 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:59 AM EDT

        Ric, I agree that all hate crimes should be investigated, by whatever groups, and that is the point of the article. These crimes were not investigated in spite of a tip that was given by the F.B.I. in 2007, and I would consider the F.B.I. wouldn't make such a tip without evidence.

        • 1 vote
        #2.3 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:26 PM EDT

        Wasn't 9/11 also planned in Munich? And Aren't the FBI American?

          #2.4 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:46 PM EDT
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          Hard to wrap my head around arresting people for what they believe. I guess that comes from living in a country that was established on a philosophy of free speech and thought no matter how offensive. Oopsie! Did I just commit a crime? Sorry.

          • 5 votes
          Reply#3 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:10 AM EDT

          Rob,

          They weren't arrested just for what they believe. The article said prosecutors allege they are guilty of "significant crimes", whatever that may mean.

          • 5 votes
          #3.1 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:18 AM EDT

          Rob, while flashing a swastika or a nazi salute unfortunately IS a crime in Germany, this bunch seems to be involved in some hard core violence.

          • 10 votes
          #3.2 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:24 AM EDT

          The term "significant crimes" is suspiciously vague. Wouldn't you agree? I've seen people arrested here, much later charged with catch-all "crimes." And recently in Canada, only to be released because there was no actual crime committed. It never pays to be too different or offensive. It scares people, and when people are scared they act irrationally at first, and then later come up with some excuse to justify their actions. It's a pattern, a very human pattern. I do hope cooler heads prevail, or at least come up with something substantial.

          • 3 votes
          #3.3 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:30 AM EDT

          Rob,

          You could be right. It could be trumped up charges. Who knows? Unfortunately, the article did not give sufficiently detailed information about what they are supposed to have done for us to form a judgement about the matter. Anything we might think would just be speculation.

            #3.4 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:34 AM EDT

            I lived there for a while, Rob, and noticed that the garden variety neo-Nazis in Germany are dime-a-dozen, but the Polizei leaves them alone for the most part. These guys seem to be involved in something a lot more sinister. German police is very firm but they do not do political stunts. It is not at all like here in US.

            • 5 votes
            #3.5 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:38 AM EDT

            The article says that they are linked to 11 murders. Perhpas the added that later?

              #3.6 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:47 AM EDT

              Murders of Turkish and a Greek restaurant owner. Murder is a significant crime, unless you consider some of the murders that are considered acceptable: highway fatalities, unsafe toys, deadly pollution, smoking, cutting off support and Medicaid to elderly, not allowing chemo therapy or bone marrow transplants to people who are too poor to afford health insurance... We have lots of death panels in the U.S., don't we?

              • 2 votes
              #3.7 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:24 PM EDT

              Being a nazi is not about free speech..anymore than being a member of alquida is.Their doctrine since the time of Hitler is to mass murder ,torture and is the most violent racist genocidal doctrine.The nazis were hung at Nuremburg for their acts.Being a nazi is a crime against the world and humanity and Germany who experienced it know better than anyone else.. They must be inprisoned and hunted down .If they resist violently.. use all the force necessary to detain them . Like alquida, it is not a debating society,Its a deadly mass murdering group and that is their only reason to exist.

              it

              s a deadly mass murdering group.That is their only reason for being!

              • 2 votes
              #3.8 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 4:58 PM EDT

              Being a nazi is not different to being a zionist, a communist or a member of Ku Klux Klan. It was merely a membership to a political organization. Only his deeds determined whether he was good or bad.

              Most nazi were bad, but there were also many good ones. In a same way there are good zionists and bad zionist as represented by bigots like sharon, begin and nittyahoo.

                #3.9 - Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:04 PM EDT
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                "German police and intelligence officials failed to investigate possible racist motives in the case despite receiving an FBI report in 2007 showing that the 11 victims had been killed because of their ethnicity..."

                FBI is investigating crimes in Germany? More US taxpayer money wasted on idiotic assignments.

                • 6 votes
                Reply#4 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:21 AM EDT

                No kidding Max..also why are American troops STILL stationed in Germany and S.Korea??? These countries can defend themselves and we are BROKE!!!!

                • 4 votes
                #4.1 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:31 AM EDT

                Yes, Ric... Russia spends on defense ($35B) less than 4% of what we do (1T) and still nobody f-ks with them. We are the masters of pissing away our tax dollars.

                • 4 votes
                #4.2 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:33 AM EDT

                Nobody F's with Russia because they know Russia is unpredictable.

                • 7 votes
                #4.3 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:38 AM EDT

                No, nobody f-ks with Russia because they have a ton of nukes and if you screw with them, they will kill you.

                • 4 votes
                #4.4 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:01 AM EDT

                Nobody pokes the Bear because it will swipe back. Yet we consider awarding our troops medals for "courageous restraint." Putin adventures like Hemingway while Obama chastises from the ivory tower. Not a criticism, just an observation.

                • 1 vote
                #4.5 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:14 PM EDT

                It is a difficult tightrope to walk: investigations need restraint, but both the F.B.I. and C.I.A. do international investigations to prevent terrorist activity within the U.S. Think about the report that Rice and the Bush administration ignored in 2001. It is not money ill-spent. However, the source, F.B.I. instead of C.I.A. implies that the F.B.I. started an investigation of a connection between this group and people in America; gives me the shivers. I do agree about military bases all over the place, but maybe these can be international (and most people wouldn't want that either) to watch over problems; the U.S. is too far away from other countries to protect our shores without some monitoring. George H.W. Bush closed a lot of bases, and Clinton continued with that, but the bases closed included ones around New York City (Fort Dix, Fort Hamilton, etc.), and then when 9/11 happened, the military was too far away to respond or rescue, and a lot of firefighters and police died, and there was no military-grade large helicopters to be able to every try to put out fires or rescue anybody. It saved a lot of money, didn't it? NOT.

                • 1 vote
                #4.6 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:18 PM EDT
                Reply

                Germany has a substantial ethnic Turkish population that has been in the country since the 1960s. In the past there have been isolated violent incidents targeting Turkish migrants in the country.

                • 2 votes
                Reply#5 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:22 AM EDT

                Raymond you are correct that Germany, Austria, UK took in a high influx of Turkish immigrants under the guest worker program. Unfortunately, Germany had been plagued with several unsolved murders of foreigners over the past few years, namely Turkish restaurant owners, one Greek man (probably mistaken identity due to his brown skin similar to a some Turkish people) and one female police officer investigating the case. This year, the cold case was broken and they traced the murders to the underground neo-nazi group. It was discovered that this group was being protected by people in the far right community as well as some far right politicians and police officers. Lastly, these nazis had t-shirts printed with a pic of kebab with a bloody knife through it saying kill all Turks as well as several of the underground newspapers with cartoons depicting the murders of the Kebab owners and patrons. This group was supported financially for the purpose of killing foreigners. Interesting that there have been several killings of foreigners by neo-nazis across Europe especially in Hungary, UK and Poland. Russia also has a big problem but the neo-nazis are not investigated like in Germany. If you would like to know more, just google kebab killings, kebab murders, or nazi donner murders etc.

                • 5 votes
                #5.1 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:10 AM EDT
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                These extreme German groups must be squashed where ever they raise their vile heads. They exist solely to bring suffering and death to anyone unlike themselves. Just look what happened last time with that "Little Corporal" and the millions that died because of him. Germany will play a big role in the EU in the coming years and might actually take control of the union. If and when that happens, the tribulation of Revelation will begin, and WW I & WW II together will look like a girl scout picnic.

                • 2 votes
                Reply#6 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:25 AM EDT

                Yes, and all the religious kooks are drooling to see it happen.

                • 4 votes
                #6.1 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:31 AM EDT

                Evenstar, take what you just said and replace "German" with "Islam" and "little corporal" with *insert any islamic leader here* Thank you.

                • 3 votes
                #6.2 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:41 AM EDT

                There are many religious Kooks out there. I am religious, am I Kook? Thats debatable, however, I do not wish to see the tribulation of Revelation as it will be,

                "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be." Matthew 24:21

                I dont want to see the terrible things that happen today, as it appears to becoming worse with each passing year. I pray for peace and forgiveness, as that is what I am taught through the bible. If thats being a Kook, then I am a Kook.

                • 2 votes
                #6.3 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:48 AM EDT

                thatguydownsouth:

                As the artical was about Germans, I stayed on topic, however, any extremist group (including Christians)are dangerous, as they have perverted and corrupted ideals.

                • 5 votes
                #6.4 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:51 AM EDT

                If you are spreading the gospel of peace, forgiveness, and love, and are performing good deeds that benefit others, you are definitely not a religious kook. But if you are eager to see the destruction of the world so that 'the wicked will be punished', you are loco in the kabeza...

                • 3 votes
                #6.5 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:07 AM EDT

                Germany will play a big role in the EU in the coming years and might actually take control of the union. If and when that happens, the tribulation of Revelation will begin, and WW I & WW II together will look like a girl scout picnic.

                Germany already has taken over the EU, just look at the negotiations with Greece, whatever Merkel says usually goes.. I dont blame them either since they have the most skin in the game and with the EU largest economy, they would be crazy not too..

                • 2 votes
                #6.6 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:28 AM EDT
                Reply

                Ah ah, when Neo-Nazi extremists use CO2 BB-gun replicas, we don't have to worry too much........the German authorities seem to control weapons pretty well.

                  Reply#9 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:51 AM EDT

                  Did you notice that the ammo in the picture are actually BLANKS? And the 'pistol' is NOT A FIREARM (it's an air pistol)?

                  • 2 votes
                  #9.1 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:18 AM EDT

                  If you read the article, you will notice that they didn't fire blanks when the committed murders. These are only replicas in the picture that they display in their meetings.

                  • 2 votes
                  #9.2 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:07 PM EDT
                  Reply

                  They are pathetic losers who, themselves, would have been eliminated had they lived during the Hitler madness. How can anyone admire or wish to emulate that period of insanity that gripped Germany or the monster that was Hitler?

                  • 5 votes
                  Reply#10 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:01 AM EDT

                  Hateful and vindictive Hatred. Irresponsibility and blaming others. Stupidity and lame-mindedness. Mental disorders. Yeah, I think that covers it.

                    #10.1 - Thu Apr 26, 2012 10:28 AM EDT
                    Reply

                    While I believe Naziism should be stepped on as it is nothing but hate, I find the photo at the beginning to be a bit misleading. The large container holds co2 cartridges, the pistol looks like a pellet gun and the rifle is a copy, ie a fake. I see maybe 4 rounds of linked ammo, brass knuckles and a helmet. This is international news? Apparently, the crimes that these idiots are accused of include being total jackasses and low I.Q. followers.

                      Reply#11 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:04 AM EDT

                      The linked ammo are all blanks. See the crimps where the bullets should be.

                        #11.1 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:19 AM EDT

                        The pic is misleading because there is a very strong neo-nazi organization in Germany. They also have paramilitary neo-nazi training camps with target practice along with a plethora of propaganda. By the way, they are hoarding more than antique weapons. Also most of the neo- nazis collect stuff from wwII to remind them of their admired leader, Hitler. An obsession like that can only lead to evil deeds. Moreover, those harmless brass knuckles that you see are actually used by several members that go out looking for foreigners to beat up. An African man standing at a bus stop was killed at the hands of nazis sporting their shiny knuckles. There have been a few hundred beatings perpetrated by these idiots ,as you called them, against people with brown skin. Google donner killings and nazis beating up immigrants in Germany.

                        • 3 votes
                        #11.2 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:27 AM EDT

                        Article is incomplete. What are the 'significant crimes'? Merely collecting Nazi memorabilia and congregating in Germany or somthing much more serious?

                        • 1 vote
                        #11.3 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:43 AM EDT
                        Reply

                        If they were armed with the matterials displayed on the table they arent exactly a threat to overthrowing the German govt. Isnt there a greater Islamic threat somwhere to report? How did this make world news?

                        • 2 votes
                        Reply#12 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:25 AM EDT

                        An extremist is just that..... EXTREME .......extremism is everywhere..... in every form of government, religion and in every culture.....

                          #12.1 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:11 PM EDT

                          I think Islam is working on taking over Germany, and the politicians are too weak and scared of being called whatever, which makes people react.

                            #12.2 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:01 PM EDT
                            Reply

                            Why would the FBI be involved in a German investigation of prior crimes??? Could the Southern Poverty Law outfit be involved??

                            • 2 votes
                            Reply#13 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:36 AM EDT

                            I commend the German authorities .....The fools that for one second think that this type of thinking will be tolerated are just that .....fools. How could one align themselves with a part of human history that was so dreadful. The German people must forever carry that burden. They should and will squash it at every opportunity.

                            • 2 votes
                            Reply#14 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:52 AM EDT

                            Im hardly PRO neo-Nazi but I think its scary when you say governments shouldnt tolerate this type of 'thinking'. What other types of thinking shouldnt Governments tolerate as well??

                            • 4 votes
                            #14.1 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:24 AM EDT

                            Yes PV, and the American people should forever carry the burden of Native American genocide and their war crimes in Philippines where US soldiers exterminated several hundred thousands of brown people... http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/war.crimes/US/U.S.Philippines.htm

                            • 2 votes
                            #14.2 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:55 AM EDT

                            Extremists should not be tolerated. It is not a left or right issue. Anyone who would harm others or think of using violence as a tool should be stopped before something happens. Not after. These people are modeling themselves after one of the most violent/vile regimes in human history. NO.... it should NOT be tolerated in any way shape or form.

                            • 2 votes
                            #14.3 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 11:56 AM EDT

                            Max .....read carefully ......I said " must forever carry that burden". There is a difference.......they cannot deny their history and neither can we as Americans. We too must learn from our mistakes ....Not passing judgement on the German people.....not at all.

                            • 1 vote
                            #14.4 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:03 PM EDT

                            And what burden should the thousands of Muslims who keep pouring into a small country like Germany, and the rest of Europe, trying to take it for themselves carry. When will the Europeans experience the fate of the Native Americans?

                              #14.5 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:03 PM EDT
                              Reply

                              The neo-Nazis are no joke, and nothing to do with "freedom" of anything. They are murderers. The German neo-Nazis were implied in a connection to U.S. neo-Nazis, such as Timothy McVeigh, who blew up the Federal Building in Oklahoma. There were heavy German accents heard, according to a N.P.R. report, in the former Yugoslavia stirring ethnic hatred before that war. These Nazis try to start wars; they commit murders; that is not freedom at all, but like assassins. In Germany, they don't get away with it, but they spread their violence to other countries that don't have laws against them.

                              Think about the "white supremacists" in America right now; they stockpile weapons, and spread hatred, not freedom. Do you think the founders of America wanted us to hate each other? Think about what Benjamin Franklin said about the signing of the Declaration of Independence: "If we do not hang together, we shall hang separately." The most important thing America, and the world, can do is to "hang together," and that will not happen if these hate groups continue to promote the cult of violence and hate.

                              • 2 votes
                              Reply#15 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:01 PM EDT

                              Feel better?

                              • 1 vote
                              #15.1 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 4:15 PM EDT

                              Timothy Mcveigh again? Geesh, if he didn't do that who would you people have to point to every time? Why would people come from Germany to blow up a building in Oklahoma? Were there no white Christians in the building? What were the demographics?

                                #15.2 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:58 PM EDT
                                Reply

                                We need to crack down on these right wing nazi-like nut jobs here, here they can hide behind the second admendment, we even got some in politics. When you look at what some repubs say and do and support, kinda make you wonder.....They support voter susppression laws, thats not America. We need to pass a law like they did in Germany, and outlaw the fockers.

                                • 1 vote
                                Reply#16 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 1:01 PM EDT

                                And many of us believe that the Democratic and Republican Parties need to be outlawed. You equate 'Pubs to Nazis like we equate Dems' to the Communists.

                                See my point? Just because you think your right doesn't mean you are.....

                                  #16.1 - Sat Apr 28, 2012 5:27 AM EDT

                                  1. They also hide behind the first amendment

                                  2. Dont forget the KKK

                                    #16.2 - Tue May 22, 2012 5:23 AM EDT
                                    Reply

                                    Probably just Arizona republicans tyring to purchase the old ovens so brewer and light them up.

                                      Reply#17 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 1:19 PM EDT

                                      That's one of the most disturbing, replusive and insensitive comments I've ever read on Newsvine. You're disgusting.

                                      • 2 votes
                                      #17.1 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 4:47 PM EDT
                                      Reply

                                      I could be wrong but my take on some of these neo nazis is that they are people frustrated with the situation the way it is (mass immigration in Germany for example) reverse racism and double standards, etc. And instead of expressing and fighting it through legal channels or the system or fighting it rationally-maybe they feel powerless to do so or that it won't work, they choose that scary, threatening symbol to sort of hide behind and do some of the work for them. Now I think I p--ed off both sides. I hope not, I didn't mean to.

                                        Reply#18 - Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:54 PM EDT

                                        Your right to a large degree.....

                                          #18.1 - Sat Apr 28, 2012 5:28 AM EDT
                                          Reply

                                          Interesting Adding to my research.

                                          • 1 vote
                                          Reply#19 - Sat Apr 28, 2012 3:41 AM EDT
                                          Comment author avatarJosef Habichvia Facebook

                                          Dear friends, there is a little error in that report. 3 are arrested just in one town, totally 19.

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