German leaders renew calls to ban NPD

German parliament Vice President Wolfgang Thierse has once again called for a ban of the far-right NPD party.

“Although banning the NPD would not solve all the problems, but it’s an important signal to the victims of the right extremist attacks,” Bundestag vice president said.

Last November, the German police discovered the existence of a neo-Nazi cell believed to be behind the killing of a policewoman and the so-called “doner murders” of nine foreign-born food vendors between 2000 and 2007, and later arrested a former NPD official on suspicion of assisting the underground National Socialist group.

The case has prompted the government to consider new ways to ban the far right NPD, but German politicians and parties are divided over the issue.

A previous attempt to ban the party was overturned by Germany’s Constitutional Court in 2003 when it emerged that evidence against the party had partly been fabricated by paid informants in the party.

On Monday, about 13,000 anti-Nazi demonstrators from all over the Germany gathered in the eastern city of the Dresden to stop far-right groups to mark the 67th-anniversary of the city’s bombing during the Second World War.

After preventing far-right groups to enter the city center by forming a human chain, demonstrators lit candles in memory of the victims of the raid and attended a memorial service. Critics accuse the far right of exploiting the bombing for political purposes.

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