2004 Cologne bombing
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On 9 June 2004 a pipe bomb
detonated in Cologne
, Germany, in a business area popular with immigrants from Turkey
. 22 people were wounded, four sustained serious injuries. A barber's shop was completely destroyed, many shops and numerous parked cars were seriously damaged by the explosion and the nails added to the bomb for extra damage. Authorities initially excluded the possibility of a terrorist attack
According to the German news magazine Der Spiegel
a Neo-Nazi
group calling themselves „Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund
“ (National Socialist Underground) claimed responsibility in a DVD found among the ruins of a semi-detached house in Zwickau
, Germany, that exploded on 4 November 2011.
The group around Uwe Böhnhardt, Uwe Mundlos, and Beate Zschäpe has also being indicted with the killing of nine business men of Turkish and Greek origin between 2000 and 2006, the so called Döner murders as well as with the Michéle Kiesewetter
in 2007.
Pipe bomb
A pipe bomb is an improvised explosive device, a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an explosive material. The containment provided by the pipe means that simple low explosives can be used to produce a relatively large explosion, and the fragmentation of the pipe itself creates potentially...
detonated in Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
, Germany, in a business area popular with immigrants from Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
. 22 people were wounded, four sustained serious injuries. A barber's shop was completely destroyed, many shops and numerous parked cars were seriously damaged by the explosion and the nails added to the bomb for extra damage. Authorities initially excluded the possibility of a terrorist attack
According to the German news magazine Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel
Der Spiegel is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. It is one of Europe's largest publications of its kind, with a weekly circulation of more than one million.-Overview:...
a Neo-Nazi
Neo-Nazism
Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II social or political movements seeking to revive Nazism or some variant thereof.The term neo-Nazism can also refer to the ideology of these movements....
group calling themselves „Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund
National Socialist Underground
National Socialist Underground or NSU, is a far-right German terror group which was uncovered in November 2011. The Bosphorus serial murders, a murder series of nine Turkish and Greek immigrants between 9 September 2000 and 6 April 2006, the murder of a policewoman and the 2004 Cologne bombing...
“ (National Socialist Underground) claimed responsibility in a DVD found among the ruins of a semi-detached house in Zwickau
Zwickau
Zwickau in Germany, former seat of the government of the south-western region of the Free State of Saxony, belongs to an industrial and economical core region. Nowadays it is the capital city of the district of Zwickau...
, Germany, that exploded on 4 November 2011.
The group around Uwe Böhnhardt, Uwe Mundlos, and Beate Zschäpe has also being indicted with the killing of nine business men of Turkish and Greek origin between 2000 and 2006, the so called Döner murders as well as with the Michéle Kiesewetter
Michéle Kiesewetter
Michéle Kiesewetter , a German police officer, was killed by neo-nazi terrorists on 25 April 2007 in Heilbronn, Germany. Her colleague was shot in the head and seriously wounded in the same incident...
in 2007.