Two West German neo-Nazis, just extradited from England, were ordered held in custody by a Karlsruhe federal judge today pending trial.
The accused, Walter Kexel and Ulrich Tillmann, spent II months in a British jail before they were extradited to stand trial in West Germany for politically motivated acts of violence. They are charged specifically with participation in a series of bomb attacks on residential quarters of American service personnel in the autumn of 1982. Two U.S. soldiers were seriously wounded in the bombings which took place in Butzbach, Frankfurt, Giessen and Darmstadt.
The two men also stand accused of violent acts during or after meetings of rightwing extremists and of displaying and circulating Nazi propaganda material. Three other neo-Nazis who allegedly took part in attacks on U.S. servicemen have been in custody since last year. They are Dieter Aporleder, Hans-Peter Fraas, and Helge Karl-Wulf Blasche.
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