The far right is suspected of having anything to do with killing German politician

In the current phase of the investigation, we start by the principle of having doubts about extreme right actions, to whitewash the reasons for the assassination that shocked public opinion, the prosecutor's spokesman told the media.

Karlsruhe's general prosecutor, competent in the field of terrorism and organised crime, is specifically based on testing this thesis, on the suspect's past, a person about 45 close to the neo-Nazi movement and already convicted of acts of violence, more specifically against an immigrant centre, Arsh explains.

Investigators are trying to find out if there are other associates, but at the moment there are no elements proving that the suspect may have acted within an extreme right grouping formed for that purpose. Taken as reference to the German neo-Nazi grouping NSU, responsible for killing several immigrants in Germany since the early 2000s.