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That demand came in a blitz of initiatives. Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters banned the Nationalist Front, a 130-member radical group with no apparent connection to Molln but a bent for terror, and set his sights on other right- wing extremists. Police raided 51 houses across the country in one day, uncovering caches of weapons and propaganda. Chancellor Helmut Kohl's denunciation of the murders, unlike many of his earlier comments on violence, ^ bore a note of genuine concern: "What has appeared here is an act of brutality that for every humane sensibility is incomprehensible...
...part of it. Eckart Werthebach, head of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, announced an expansion of his agency's surveillance of the far right into "a department that has never before existed in such a dimension." Chief federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl took charge of the Molln case -- his first involving right-wing terror, despite some 3,400 acts of violence by radicals in the past two years -- and within days officials rounded up two suspects from a loosely knit far-right group in the Molln area...
...violent attacks were charged with nothing more serious than disturbing the peace. The chairman of the German Union of Judges, Rainer Voss, admitted last week that the public saw the judges as "inappropriately lenient" and urged his colleagues "to confront decisively the enemies of humanity and democracy." The Molln case may have provided an instance of the kind of leniency the judges stand accused of. In the week before the attack, prosecutors tried repeatedly to have Michael Peters, 25, one of the two suspects in the case, arrested in connection with several attacks on foreigners. Each time the indictment...
Although a constitutional amendment that would restrict the provision of asylum is imminent, few analysts believe it will make much difference. Germany is not about to deport hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers overnight; a continuing influx of illegal immigrants is considered unavoidable; as Molln showed, there are other targets as well -- the 6.2 million foreigners living in Germany...
...diminishing. And as Kohl finally acknowledged in a recent speech, Germany is entering the recession that has had much of the West and Japan in its grip. Most domestic political considerations argue against the Kohl government's using the opportunity of the police crackdown to confront German xenophobia. After Molln, though, every humane consideration demands...