Day X, Part 3: Blind Spot 2.0

Day X

The New York Times

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🗓️ 10 June 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Franco A. is not the only far-right extremist in Germany discovered by chance. For over a decade, 10 murders in the country, including nine victims who were immigrants, went unsolved. The neo-Nazi group responsible was discovered only when a bank robbery went wrong. In this episode, we ask: Why has a country that spent decades atoning for its Nazi past so often failed to confront far-right extremism?

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0:00.0	The case of Franco A was seen as a wake-up call for Germany.
0:09.0	But the thing is, it shouldn't have been.
0:13.7	Because Franco A wasn't the first case to show that Germany has a blind spot when it
0:19.2	comes to the far right.
0:22.3	Years before him, there was another case, another wake-up call.
0:27.4	It was huge, it was like watershed.
0:30.7	It was one of the biggest far right terrorism cases Germany has ever seen.
0:37.4	And so, in December 2019, I went to Frankfurt with producers Clare Tennis-Getter and Lindsay
0:44.2	Garrison, to meet a woman who was a part of that case.
0:52.0	Her name is Seda Baja Yildes and she's a criminal lawyer.
0:58.0	Something changes with me, with this case.
1:06.6	When did you, before you were even involved as a lawyer?
1:10.7	When did you first hear about the murders?
1:14.3	It was in November 2011.
1:17.6	I was on the road to court or something like that.
1:23.6	And I'm here to radio, terrorism group,
1:34.4	and they killed 10 people from 2007,
1:40.7	and most of the victims were Turkish people.
1:46.6	And nobody realized that these people are killed from Nazis.
1:53.2	So, I can't believe that something like that,
1:57.0	does this in Germany, and it can't happen.
1:59.8	That it is possible that this kind of thing can happen in Germany, yes.
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