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Erfurt (dpa / th) - The number of unenforced arrest warrants against extremists fell by almost a third last year in Thuringia, according to an MDR report.
The broadcaster relied on information from the state government on a request from CDU MP Raymond Walk.
According to this, a total of 47 arrest warrants against 44 suspects recorded as extremist were open in 2020.
In 2019 there were still 64 pending arrest warrants directed against 54 people.
According to the Interior Ministry, the main reason for the incomprehensibility of arrest warrants was the unknown whereabouts of the wanted.
Even when moving to other federal states, an arrest warrant can no longer be enforced by the Thuringian police, as the responsibility changes to the respective federal state, the ministry said.
The number of open arrest warrants against extremists has been collected twice a year by the Federal Criminal Police Office and the 16 State Criminal Police Offices since 2012.
One of the reasons is the unmasking of the right-wing terrorist group NSU from Thuringia.
Uwe Mundlos, Uwe Böhnhardt and Beate Zschäpe had lived underground for 13 years and murdered ten people.
In that time the arrest warrants expired.
After that, they were no longer wanted by the authorities until they were exposed in November 2011.
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