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Chancellor Angela Merkel: Germany

Germany Dept: BERLIN - A 2000 firebomb targeting Russian Jewish immigrants at a Duesseldorf railway station. A 2004 nailbombing in a Cologne immigrant neighbourhood. A 2008 fire in a Ludwigshafen apartment building that killed nine Turkish immigrants, including five children, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed a thorough investigation of the group's crimes, calling them "a disgrace, shameful for Germany." FILE - A policeman rescues a child from a burning apartment house in Ludwigshafen, Germany, on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2008. Nine Turkish immigrants including five children were killed in the fire. This is one of several unsolved crimes, that are all now reopened as the possible work of a small band of neo-Nazis who allegedly killed and terrorized minorities for a decade, undetected by Germany's thousands of security authorities nationwide before they finally tripped up this month. AP Photo/dapd, Rene Werse, File All unsolved crimes, and all now reopened as the possible work of a small band of neo-Nazis who allegedly killed and terrorized minorities for a decade, undetected by Germany's thousands of security authorities nationwide before they finally tripped up this month. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.