A German neo-Nazi on trial over the murder of pro-refugee politician Walter Luebcke admitted Wednesday to the killing that has shocked the nation and highlighted the growing threat of right-wing extremism.
Luebcke's killing is believed to be Germany's first far-right political assassination since World War II. "No one should die because he has another view," said Mr Ernst, adding that he had been"misled by wrong ideas".Luebcke belonged to Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party and headed the Kassel regional council in the western state of Hesse.
Angered by mass sexual assaults by migrants against women in Cologne on New Year's Eve 2015 and the 2016 terror attack in the French city of Nice, Mr Ernst"began planning the murder in earnest" and started tracking Mr Luebcke's movements, the indictment said. He was convicted of an attempted bomb attack on an asylum home in 1993. In 2009, German media say he took part in clashes between neo-Nazis and union members at a demonstration.
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