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Prosecutors pointed out that Stephan Ernst had been motivated by “racism and xenophobia” as he moved to assassinate a German MP who has repeatedly called for supporting refugees.
A neo-Nazi sympathizer has been sentenced to life in prison for assassinating pro-migration German lawmaker Walter Luebcke on 1 June 2019.
On Thursday, 47-year-old Stephan Ernst was found guilty of gunning down Luebcke, 65, at his home near the town of Kassel, in what was thought to be Germany’s first political assassination since the Second World War.
Prosecutors said that the member of Angela Merkel s CDU party was shot in the head at close range, a killing that took place four years after Luebcke supported the German Chancellor’s decision in 2015 to open the country’s borders to migrants.
Main defendant Stephan Ernst and his lawyer Mustafa Kaplan look on in the courtroom as they wait for the verdict in the case of the murder of Walter Luebcke, at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt, Germany. Picture: Kai Pfaffenbach/Ruters
German neo-Nazi handed life sentence for murdering pro-migration politician
By AFP
By Annalena Dörner with Femke Colborne in Berlin
Frankfurt am Main, Germany - A German neo-Nazi was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison for murdering pro-migration politician Walter Luebcke, a killing that shocked the country and highlighted the growing threat of right-wing extremism.
Stephan Ernst, 47, was found guilty of shooting dead the politician from Angela Merkel s conservative CDU party on June 1, 2019, in what is believed to be Germany s first far-right political assassination since World War II.
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