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Germany charges PKK suspect with 1996
firebombings
16.8.2006
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BERLIN, August
16,-- The office of Germany's federal prosecutor on
Wednesday said it has charged a suspected leader of
the banned Kurdish rebel group PKK in connection
with a series of firebombings in the western city of
Dortmund a decade ago.
The 35-year-old man, identified only as Satine A.,
or Gulay A., has been charged with arson and
belonging to a terrorist organisation, the
prosecutor's office said.
The PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), which was
outlawed in Germany in 1993, carried out seven
firebombings in Dortmund with petrol bombs in a
weekend wave of violence in March 1996.
Nobody was injured in the attacks on banks, travel
agencies, a police station and a post office, but
clashes between the police and members of the
organisation outraged Germans.
The suspect, who was arrested in April, is believed
to have organised the attacks while he was a member
of the PKK's leadership in Germany.
German authorities last week captured a 50-year-old
man suspected of having been the leader of the PKK
and its political wing in Germany since June 2005.
The PKK's separatist campaign in southeastern Turkey
has claimed nearly 37,000 lives since 1984 when the PKK
launched its fight for independence or autonomy for
the mainly Kurdish-populated southeast of Turkey.
It is identified as a terrorist organisation by the
European Union, Turkey and the United States.
Under German law, the offence of belonging to a
terrorist organisation carries a prison sentence of
up to 10 years.
AFP
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