http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/16/german-neo-nazi-security-service-scandalMore damaging evidence has emerged of the German authorities' failure to stop a group of neo-Nazi terrorists who killed 10 people, robbed 14 banks and planted two nail bombs during 13 years on the run.
On Tuesday, the Hessen branch of the domestic intelligence service, the Verfassungsschutz, or BfV, admitted that one of its agents had been present in April 2006 when two members of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) shot dead a 21-year-old Turk in an internet café.
It has now emerged that the agent, who was transferred to less-sensitive work following an investigation at the time, openly held rightwing views and was known in the village where he grew up as "Little Adolf". When police raided his flat following the murder, they found a cache of guns, for which he had a legitimate licence, and extracts from Mein Kampf, according to Der Spiegel. There are unconfirmed reports that the man was present at three or more other neo-Nazi murder scenes.
Hajo Funke, one of Germany's most foremost experts in rightwing extremism, said on ARD television: "It can't be ruled out that his BfV employee took part in the murder, and that is a scandal." He has called the case "a Watergate-scale" crisis for German secret intelligence.
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