Kandel arson: racist motivation

Police officers have told prosecution witnesses that there is urgent suspicion against three young Kandel men. They are said to be responsible for the attacks on an arcade and a residential and business complex on the opposite side of the street. The basis for these statements are various statements by witnesses (the suspects were e.g. see together shortly before the time of the attacks, and their conversation was also overheard) as well as a minute reconstruction of the acts. Moreover, the act is said to have been impossible for one person to carry out on their own.

The raging blaze on the corner of Ecke Haupstraße/Bahnhofstraße killed two young Greeks, the building was totally gutted. The material damage is estimated at half a million euros.

According to police, the suspicion of a racially motivated background has hardened; the three suspects are members of the rightwing group "Nationaler Widerstand Kandel" (National Resistance Kandel). It looks as if the attack was a kind of admission test to the NWK for the one who moved to Kandel from Hagenbach.

Previous articles on the subject:

Vermeintlicher Anschlag in Kandel
 http://de.indymedia.org//2003/12/69383.shtml
Fotos nach dem Anschlag in Kandel (Pfalz)
 http://de.indymedia.org//2003/12/69172.shtml
Two young Greeks die in rightwing arson
 http://de.indymedia.org//2003/12/69157.shtml
Ausländerfeindl. Brandanschlag - 2 Tote
 http://de.indymedia.org//2003/12/69076.shtml