Accomplice to Germany neo-Nazi murder spree freed pending appeal


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  • Wednesday, 18 Jul 2018

FILE PHOTO: Defendant Ralf Wohlleben, a suspected helper of the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Underground (NSU), arrives in the courtroom in Munich May 14, 2013. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - Judges ordered the release of a key accomplice to a German neo-Nazi gang that murdered 10 people over a seven-year campaign of racially-motivated violence, saying that he had served enough of his sentence to no longer pose a flight risk pending his appeal.

The order to release Ralf Wohlleben, sentenced to 10 years in prison for procuring the weapon used to commit nine murders, comes a week after Beate Zschaepe, one of the gang's ringleaders, was jailed for life.

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