European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 9, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday december 9,1993 Michael Peters left and Lars Christiansen were convicted of murder by a state supreme court in Schleswig for the nov. 23,1992, fire bombing in Molln that killed three to two Neo nazis convicted in deadly German attack reputed gang Leader released by Hong Kong from wire reports Mono Kong a a reputed chinese gang Leader wanted in the untied states was freed tuesday after american authorities failed to follow through in an extradition proceeding. Peter Chong wanted on arson and extortion charges in san Francisco had been held in custody since his arrest in october. But he was released tuesday when prosecutors failed to file required extradition papers a Hong Kong Legal department lawyer representing the . Government said he did not intend to proceed further with the extradition order but did not explain the decision. Chong so was arrested in Hong Kong following a three year probe by t he federa i Bureau of investigation and the organized crime Force in san Francisco. Chong the suspected Leader of the Hong Kong based to hop to gang was in the British Colony after jumping bail in the United states last year officials president elected = Bern Switzerland a finance minister Otto Stich buoyed by voter approval of a tax Reform plan last month was elected wednesday to the annual Post of Swiss president. Stich a social Democrat gained 167 votes in a joint session of the two chamber Federal parliament 56 More than the needed majority. Stich who held the Post in 1988, succeeds transport minister Adolfo i on Jan. 1. The largely ceremonial presidency and vice presidency rotate among the seven member Federal Council Switzerland a Cabinet. Parliamentary approval usually is a formality but the number of votes is considered 66, improved on the 134-vote backing he got As vice president for 1993 and the 165 ballots for his 1988 Airliner hijacked Taipei Taiwan a brandishing a Scalpel a chinese businessman and a female accomplice hijacked a China Northern airlines passenger plane to Taiwan on wednesday. It was the eighth hijacking from China to Taiwan since radio said Beijing scrambled four fighter jets in an unsuccessful bid to Stop the plane from flying to Taiwan. It was the first time that China was reported to have taken such action and could reflect the Beijing governments frustration with the hijackings. Taiwan is also reacting to the hijackings. It plans to change its policy of allowing hijackers to stay in Taiwan after they serve prison terms and instead Send them Back to China the plane seized wednesday was hijacked to Taiwan less than a month ago. This time the md-s2 with 129 passengers and eight Crew members was hijacked to route from Qingdao in Northeast China to Fuzhou in the Southeast police said. Gao Jun 23, from Shandong province threatened a Crew member with the knife police said. They ident Ifield his a r to eras j Iang Shumei. Two Taiwan air Force jets escorted the plane to Taipei International Airport defense minister Sun Chen told the legislature. Bonn Germany apr a court convicted two Neo nazis of murdering three turks in a 1992 fire bombing and sentenced one of them wednesday to life in prison. The verdict and stiff sentences were a big Victory for German Justice authorities who have been accused of lacking resolve in their prosecution of right Wing Radical attacks against foreigners for the past three years. The Molln murders infuriated the turkish Community and sent thousands of germans into the streets for candlelight parades against racial hatred. The two Neo nazis Are gang Leader Michael Peters 26, and Lars Christiansen 20. They were convicted of murder by a state supreme court in Schleswig for the nov. 23, 1992, firebombing of a turkish apartment House in Molln near Hamburg. Peters got life and Christiansen 10 years in prison the harshest sentence possible for a juvenile offender. Christiansen was tried As a juvenile offender because he was 19 at the time of the firebombing. At least 30 people Are known to have died in the Neo nazi violence since 1990. Two turkish girls and the grandmother of one of the girls perished in the firebombing. Prosecutors said Peters barked Quot Heil Hitler Quot into the Telephone after calling the met Len fire department to report the attack. The most important witness in the seven month trial was an 9-year-old girl who saw a car like Christiansen a Stop in front of the turkish Home on the night of the attack and two masked figures firebomb the residence the court ordered police Protection for the girl after an Anonymous caller threatened to kill her. Defense attorneys said her testimony Wasny to reliable. Slain in the firebombing were Yeliz Arslan 10 Ayse Yilmaz 14 and Zahide Arslan 51, who was Yeliza a grandmother and Ayser a aunt. Baht de Arslan rushed into a room to Rescue the girls but never came out alive. The Molln attack forced the government to pay attention to the mounting right Wing violence and was the first to be taken Over by the Federal prosecutors office. State and local District attorneys had investigated and prosecuted Neo nazi trials before then German Justice authorities have been accused of being More lenient with Young Neo nazis than with left Wing terrorists. There is no Central record of sentencing in Neo nazi trials but few of the assailants have been sentenced for murder and Light sentences with probation have not been uncommon. In Dresden a Neo nazi was sentenced in october to 2vi years in prison in the death of a mozambican Man. The court said it Wasny to Clear whether the Man had fallen from a moving Streetcar or was pushed by taunting Neo nazis. The sentence for Peters who used to celebrate Adolf hitlers birthday is the first time that a Neo nazi has been sent to prison for life. Peters who has never held a steady Job led a gang that firebombed at least two other Homes for foreigners. No one was Hurt in those attacks. Christiansen a supermarket clerk before his West used to write anti foreigner lyrics and celebrated Hitler s birthday with Peters nazi Memorabilia and xenophobic posters vere found in their apartments. 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Der Spiegel Magazine said one part of the film shows Althans at Auschwitz in what is now Poland claiming that it was technically impossible for jews to be killed there. That Contention known As the Quot Auschwitz lie a is commonly spread by Radical rightists about the deaths of 6 million european jews under the nazis. Such statements Are against the Law in Germany and conviction for spreading them can bring up to five years in prison. The film is called Dieruf Neo nazi or profession Neo nazi. On monday Germany scentral Council of jews expressed Quot indignation and alarm Quot that the film was to be shown in Heaters within the next few Days including in Frankfurt on Friday. The statement said Althans dialogue and symbols contained in the film spread nazi propaganda insult and incite the Public and play Down the loss of life. Quot without extra explanation the film is not appropriate to provide Public or historical enlightenment a the statement said. It said that Only two instances in the film show someone taking a counter stance to Althans and that the film Quot left Mecklenburg Vor Pommert Hessen and Hamburg provided about $240,000 from state culture funds to subsidize production of the film according to reports. The four states have since asked Heaters not to show the film without counter commentary and a Hamburg theater cancelled a planned showing of the film this weekend. ,
