Intelligence chief of German state resigns
BERLIN, JULY 11 (AP/UNB) - Saxony's interior minister says the head of the state's agency that tracks extremists is stepping down in the wake of intelligence failures that helped allow a small band of neo-Nazis to operate undetected for years.
Markus Ulbig told state parliament on Wednesday that Reinhard Boos was resigning and had asked for a transfer.
Boos is the third high-ranking intelligence official from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution to resign in the wake of the case, including the federal head of the agency.
The National Socialist Underground is suspected of killing nine immigrants between 2000 and 2006 and a policewoman in 2007 in attacks across the country. Two main members died in an apparent murder suicide in 2011 after a botched bank robbery, and the third turned herself in.
Markus Ulbig told state parliament on Wednesday that Reinhard Boos was resigning and had asked for a transfer.
Boos is the third high-ranking intelligence official from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution to resign in the wake of the case, including the federal head of the agency.
The National Socialist Underground is suspected of killing nine immigrants between 2000 and 2006 and a policewoman in 2007 in attacks across the country. Two main members died in an apparent murder suicide in 2011 after a botched bank robbery, and the third turned herself in.
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