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The Bundestag committee of inquiry into the National Socialist Underground (NSU) has highlighted what it describes as a “total failure” of German security services.
Tagesspiegel explains that in its final report, due to be presented to the Bundestag in August but released on May 16, the committee deplores “a police and secret service investigation marked by blind prejudice,” and “a massive underestimation of the danger of right-wing extremism by regional and federal authorities which failed to exchange sufficient information.”
Numerous experts, including police trainers, have called for centralised coordination of initiatives to combat right-wing extremists, as well as counselling programmes for those who have left extreme right circles.
