Extremism – Wiesbaden – Lübcke Committee of Inquiry meets for the first time in public – Politics

Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) – The investigative committee into the Lübcke murder case in the Hessian state parliament will publicly investigate possible breakdowns by the authorities for the first time today, Wednesday. The committee wanted to hear experts on the right-wing extremist scene in northern Hesse in Wiesbaden before the witness questioning, said committee chairman Christian Heinz (CDU). The experts invited on Wednesday include the journalist Joachim Tornau from Kassel, the extremism researcher Rudolf van Hüllen from Krefeld and Kirsten Neumann from the mobile advisory team against racism and right-wing extremism for democratic culture in Hesse (MBT Hesse).

The investigation committee is supposed to examine the role of the Hessian security authorities in the murder of Walter Lübcke. The Kassel government president was killed in 2019. The Frankfurt Higher Regional Court sentenced Stephan Ernst to life imprisonment at the end of January 2021. The court saw it as proven that the German shot the CDU politician. The motives: right-wing extremism and xenophobia. In the meantime all those involved in the proceedings have appealed against the judgment.

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