Friedhelm Busse, a 53-year-old self-styled “fuehrer” of a violence-prone neo-Nazi group, was sentenced to six months imprisonment for anti-Semitic activities by a Munich court yesterday. According to the prosecution, he is under investigation for other offenses, including membership in a terrorist organization, illegal possession of arms and criminal conspiracy. If convicted, he would face up to four years in prison.
Busse, who heads a group calling itself “The Peoples Socialist Movement” was arrested in October, 1981 for alleged connections with a neo-Nazi gang that robbed banks to finance terrorist activities. One member of the gang was killed and four were captured in a shoot-out with police near Munich. They were said to have been about to commit a bank robbery planned by Busse whose apartment served as a base of operation.
An investigation disclosed that two of the gang members had been trained by the Palestine Liberation Organization in Lebanon in the use of arms. Busse admitted contacts with the four men but denied he was involved in the aborted bank robbery.
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