expected verdict after a series of murders of Turkish immigrants

At the age of 43, she was sentenced to life imprisonment. The four other neo-Nazis seated next to her on the bench pose a sentence of up to 12 years in prison.

Beate Zschäpe has been on trial since May 2013 for her alleged involvement in the killing of eight Turks or people of origin of a Greek and a German policewoman, killed between 2000 and 2007. Racist killings targeted small traders throughout Germany.

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A member of a trio of neo-Nazis from the former communist GDR and called "National Socialist Clandestinity" (NSU), Beate Zschäpe is also suspected of involvement in two attacks against foreign communities and 15 robberies. Bank, according to the indictment.

She is the only survivor of the trio she formed with Uwe Mundlos (38 years) and Uwe Böhnhardt (34 years) and who lived in hiding for 14 years. In November 2011, the two men were found dead by gunfire in a caravan by the police when it came to arrest them. The investigators believe that they both committed suicide, or that one killed his accomplice before returning the weapon to himself.

The Crown badures that the accused provided logistical support important to his two companions and managed the finances of the trio while finding them housing during the many years of their life in hiding.

This affair deeply upset Germany and cast a raw light on the failings of domestic intelligence, while highlighting the underestimated danger of the German far-right networks.

During the five years of debate in a Munich Court, the main accused remained virtually silent before finally securing the end of the debate that the far-right ideology had "really no longer any importance for it."