Neo-Nazi group chose killing sites to form its logo, MP suggests

German parliamentarian Joachim Stamp has put forward a chilling theory about the Bosphorus serial murders, in which the German neo-Nazi group National Socialist Underground killed nine businessmen, eight Turkish and one Greek, from 2000 to 2006, the British news site Mail Online reported.

The group also killed a German police officer in 2007, but it is not known whether her murder was linked to the serial murders.

It had previously been believed that the NSU had chosen the locations of its attacks at random. But Joachim Stamp of the Liberal Free Democrats, a member of the parliamentary committee investigating the murders, believes that the NSU chose the locations deliberately so as to plot the group’s logo on a map.

“Everything can’t be a mere coincidence,” Stamp said. “The logo maps out perfectly the place where these crimes were committed.”

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According to a report in The Guardian, the logo, which showed pink letters on a black background, appeared in films in which the NSU took responsibility for the murders, saying that they were going “on a tour of Germany.”

Stamp admitted that his theory was not airtight since no murder was known to have been committed in Berlin or Magdeburg, which would have allowed a connecting line to be drawn between eastern Germany and the city of Kassel in the western part of the country, reported The Guardian. “It might all be just a pure coincidence,” he said. “But it could also be that in the area around the missing point, a crime was carried out which has yet to be attributed to the NSU.”

Beate Zschaepe, the sole surviving member of the NSU, has remained silent during her trial, which has been going on for more than 200 days. Four other NSU supporters are on trial with her.

The other two core members of the group, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Boenhardt, committed suicide by gunshot in a mobile home after a failed bank robbery in November 2011. The mobile home was set on fire, possibly to destroy evidence. Their safe house was also set on fire, allegedly by Zschaepe, who later turned herself in to police.

Police learned of the NSU’s existence when the gun that had been used in all of the ten murders was found in the ruins of the mobile home, together with a video in which the NSU members took responsibility for the killings and mocked investigators and their victims, The Guardian reported.

The neo-Nazi group also created a board game that they named “Pogromoly,” in which the player who sends the most Jews to the gas chambers wins.