Greens lawmaker Cem Özdemir, who has Turkish roots, revealed at the weekend that police were investigating an email he had received from a neo-Nazi group saying he was at the top of their kill list. Fellow Greens MP Claudia Roth received a message saying she was second in line to be killed. Both emails were sent on October 27th and signed with "Nuclear Weapon Division Germany" (AWD), apparently a German offshoot of a notorious US-based neo-Nazi group. "The German government clearly condemns any kind of threats or violence against politicians," Merkel's spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer told reporters. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer on Monday warned of a "highly problematic coarsening" of the political climate in the country.

Source: The Local November 04, 2019 14:08 UTC