Revelations of the brutal torture and murder of a teenager in eastern Germany blamed on neo-Nazis has sent shock-waves through the country.
Marius Schoeberl, who was 16, was killed apparently because he looked like a Jew.
His severely mutilated body was discovered in a farm silage pit in the remote village of Potzlow this summer.
Two brothers aged 17 and 23 and another 17-year-old from the village were recently found guilty of the murder.
The court was told that the boys were listening to neo-Nazi music, with its angry lyrics and furious sound, as well as drinking alcohol, before they set off into the night in search of a victim. . . .
They called him ‘un-German’, ‘a pest’ and ‘a Jew’. They dragged him to a deserted farmhouse, tortured and killed him – and then they went home to sleep.
The story paints this as a problem of the “extreme right,” but given the rise of antisemitism in polite European society, I think that’s a bit misleading.