A German court has found the main defendant in a high-profile neo-Nazi trial guilty of killing 10 people – most of them migrants – who were gunned down between 2000 and 2007 in a case that has shocked Germany and prompted accusations of institutional racism in the country’s security agencies. Zschäpe is the sole surviving member of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), a small far-right terror cell found responsible for the murder of nine immigrant men (eight Turkish and one Greek) and a German policewoman, in a killing spree carried out over seven years from 2000. Police say the NSU's two male members - Zschaepe's former lovers Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Boehnhardt - carried out their killing spree from 2000 to 2007, before they died in an apparent suicide pact following a bungled bank heist in 2011. Two other accomplices, Holger G. and Carsten S., were sentenced to three years in prison each for helping a terrorist organization and nine counts of accessory to murder, while a third man, Andre E., was sentenced to two years and six months for helping the group.
In Germany, the accused members and supporters of the Neo-Nazi terrorist group National Socialist Underground are found guilty of the murders of nine immigrants and one policewoman, assistance in said murders, bomb attacks, attempted murders, and robbery. The main defendant and last surviving member of the terrorist group, Beate Zschäpe, is sentenced to life imprisonment.