DER SPIEGEL: Court Rejects Eviction Request; Tensions Mount in Neo-Nazi Hotel Case

[Heidi]

COURT REJECTS EVICTION REQUEST
Tensions Mount in Neo-Nazi Hotel Case

Despite efforts to have them evicted, right-wing extremists in Germany continue to occupy a hotel building they plan to turn into a training center. And now police fear a violent clash between local left-wingers and their new neo-Nazi neighbors.

Bullets have been fired and weapons confiscated. But as tensions between left and right wing groups mount, a court has rejected an application to evict a group of neo-Nazis from a disused hotel in the village of Fassberg, in the northern German state of Lower Saxony.

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The Hotel Gerhus went into receivership just one day before Jürgen Rieger, deputy leader of the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD), signed a 10-year lease on the property. That has sparked controversyabout whether the neo-Nazis are there legally or whether they are squatting.

And as Wilhelm's frustrations grow, so too do those of left-wing groups outraged by reported plans to convert the hotel into a neo-Nazi youth camp and training center.

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[BlooInBloo]

1. Now's as good a time to test "never again" committment as any.

[Heidi]

2. Agree, and I thought organized Nazi-related groups were illegal in Germany, anyway.

Mornin', BlooInBloo. :hi:

[BlooInBloo]

4. Hiya!

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. I hope they get shut down