DNA link to neo-Nazi terrorist in child murder stuns Germany

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Berlin, Muharram 13, 1438, Oct 14, 2016, SPA -- Two of Germany's most high-profile criminal cases of the last two decades have been dramatically thrown together, in revelations that have shocked the country, dpa reported. New DNA evidence linking the famously unsolved murder of a nine-year-old German girl, known as Peggy K., with an alleged neo-Nazi terrorist has raised chilling new questions about the violence perpetrated by the man and his group. The German authorities announced on Friday that they had reopened the file on the death of Peggy K. after police recovered the DNA of the terrorist Uwe Boehnhardt at the forested site where her remains were found in July. Peggy's mother said she was "deeply shaken" about the sensational development in the murder of her daughter, who disappeared on her way home from school in the Bavarian town of Lichtenberg. Germany's strict privacy laws restrict the publication of names. "My client needs time to process these new developments," her lawyer Ramona Hoyer said in a statement, adding that the news had raised many new questions. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said he was "stunned" by the revelations. Boehnhardt died in November 2011 at age 34 along with another NSU member, Uwe Mundlos, in an apparent murder suicide after a bank robbery that went wrong in the eastern German city of Eisenach. -- SPA 21:31 LOCAL TIME 18:31 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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