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German police raid homes, seek suppliers to neo-Nazi gang
Jan 25, 2012, 13:15 GMT
Berlin - German police seeking evidence of who supplied guns and explosives to a murderous neo-Nazi gang raided homes and shops around the country on Wednesday, prosecutors in Karlsruhe said.
The raids targeted four suspected right-wingers believed to have quietly supported the self-styled National Socialist Underground (NSU) during a killing spree that lasted from 2000 to 2007.
Two of the alleged supporters under investigation were suspected of supplying an explosive and a gun to the group in 1998, and two others were believed to have provided guns in 2002 and 2003.
Federal Prosecutor General Harald Range was to detail the raids at a news conference Wednesday afternoon.
Two of the three gang members died in a joint suicide in November just before they could be arrested. The survivor, Beate Zschaepe, turned herself in and faces arson charges for blowing up their home, apparently to destroy evidence.
In eight of the previously unsolved murders blamed on the gang, Turkish shopkeepers were shot dead in cold blood.
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