Word: molln
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...WHOLE POLITICAL ESTABLISHMENT TURN ON A pfennig? Germany's tried to last week, as domestic and international criticism swelled in response to the recent fire bombing in Molln that left a Turkish woman, her niece and granddaughter dead. Police moved swiftly, nabbing two suspects in the case, while government officials promised an array of moves designed to end the violence against foreigners. Among the initiatives are plans to expand surveillance and to ban extremist groups and even the racist music used to spread the xenophobic message. After two years in which the radicals claimed 3,400 attacks, Bonn is battered...
...three deaths from a fire bombing -- of a 51-year-old grandmother, her niece and her granddaughter -- and the torrent of denunciations that followed the deaths did just that, shocking German officialdom into wakefulness. Demonstrations that began the day after the Nov. 23 attack in the northern city of Molln persisted through a funeral gathering in Hamburg that attracted 10,000, and then into last weekend, when a crowd many times as large gathered in Munich. Images of marchers carrying banners asking such questions as HOW MANY CHILDREN WILL HAVE TO FALL TO TERROR SO THAT BONN WILL BE ALERT...
...BURNING IN THE RATZEBURGER STREET. HEIL Hitler." In a 12:30 a.m. call to the police in the small German town of Molln, those words announced the single worst attack on foreigners to date -- one that killed a Turkish grandmother and two Turkish girls and injured nine other people...
...arson in Molln elicited more calls for stiffer laws and sharper penalties, and at week's end, Germany officially banned the far-right Nationalistic Front. German federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl took charge of the case, marking the first instance in which he has assumed responsibility for an investigation of far-right violence. The use of the Hitler salute on the phone, said Von Stahl in explaining his involvement, "indicates that the unidentified criminals wanted to use their crime to help restore a Nazi dictatorship in Germany...