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(S+) Right-wing extremism: why a deadly arson attack was reopened after 30 years (podcast)

2022-07-05T04:10:52.284Z


In 1991, Ghanaian Samuel Yeboah died in an arson attack on a home for asylum seekers. It was not until three decades later that a right-wing extremist was investigated. Can he still be convicted?


The emergency call came in at 3:37 a.m. on a September night in 1991: a home for asylum seekers in the city of Saarlouis in Saarland was on fire.

The fire brigade can still hear Samuel Yeboah from Ghana screaming.

He dies shortly afterwards from his injuries.

"There was a strong right-wing extremist scene in Saarland at the time," says SPIEGEL editor Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt in the podcast.

There were indications of a politically motivated arson attack, "but the investigations were very superficial."

Nothing happened for almost 30 years.

It was not until 2019 that there was new evidence of the alleged perpetrator - and for SPIEGEL editor Sven Röbel the authorities dealt with the case in a completely different way: "The investigators tried with great effort to roll it all up again." Why not for one conviction could be enough, you hear in this episode of SPIEGEL Daily.

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