BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has drafted legislation to help prevent a repeat of a racist murder spree by a neo-Nazi cell in 2011, giving a bigger role to federal prosecutors and allowing courts to focus more on xenophobic motives.
The killings shocked Germany after going undetected for more than a decade and coming to light only by chance in late 2011. The discovery led to massive criticism of the country's intelligence services for incompetence.
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