Germany cracks down on neo-Nazi cell

German authority launched a nationwide campaign on Tuesday to crack down on the accomplices of a neo-Nazi group called National Socialist Underground. The criminal organization has been connected with series of murders and injuries to more than 30 people, most of them foreigners, over the past decade. Two suspects, including the 36-year-old co-founder Beate Z. has been detained by the police, while two other suspects committed suicide, as the authorities beefed up their probe into the larger network of the underground neo-Nazi cell across the country. Chancellor Angela Merkel has called the right-wing terror a disgrace for Germany and vowed to step up the fight against extremists since the neo-Nazis group had been found to have been murdering immigrants for years. The Christian Democrats (CDU) reached a consensus at a congress in Leipzig on Tuesday for tough action against what it called "a serious, brutal threat to the democratic life", and to intensify the fight against right-wing extremism. "Those who helped the terrorists must be found and severely punished,'' said Thomas Oppermann, a legislator with the German parliament's intelligence committee, adding that "there are leads on other supporters". This criminal group has also committed robberies to the banks to get the money for its organizational xenophobic slaying. The case has come under much spotlight in the German media coverage, as people are shocked and appealed to harsher measures against the far-right extremist, and renewed the urgency to outlaw the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD). The New Nazi crimes have remained a particularly sensitive issue as the far-right extremists take roots in the eastern part of the country where unemployment is high and economic prospect dim.