German Neo-Nazi Planned Politician’s Murder ‘For Years’
June 16, 2020
A German neo-Nazi went on trial Tuesday for the 2019 murder of a pro-refugee politician, with the court hearing that he allegedly began plotting the killing after the 2016 Islamist truck attack in Nice fuelled his hatred of foreigners.
Walter Luebcke, 65, was shot dead while sitting in his garden last June, in a case that shocked Germany and stoked alarm about rising far-right violence.
Federal prosecutors say the main suspect, 46-year-old Stephan Ernst, was motivated by “extreme right-wing political convictions” when he pulled the trigger.