A German regional court has acquitted an alleged neo-Nazi of a bomb attack aimed at Jews, with one lawyer describing the decision as “the worst legal mistake in the history of Dusseldorf.”
Ralf Spies, 52, was accused of having planted a pipe bomb at the Wehrhahn train station in the centre of the city in July 2000. Ten Eastern European immigrants – six of them Jewish – were injured in the attack.
Mr Spies was an original suspect soon after the bombing, but police felt they did not have enough evidence to arrest him at the time, AFP reported.
But he was briefly jailed for an unrelated offence and in 2014 a former cellmate told the police Mr Spies had boasted about carrying out the attack.