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Austria: Accused releasedbombs continue

01 January 1996

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Two neo-nazis, part of the so-called "Bavarian Liberation Army" which has been linked to Gottfried Kessel's People's Parliamentary Opposition, were acquitted of charges of bomb making and conspiracy. Peter Binder and Franz Radl were charged with involvement in a series of letter bombs sent to prominent anti-racists two years ago. Binder was arrested shortly after the first wave of letter bombs, sent in early December 1993, when traces of bomb making chemicals were found in his car. Radl was considered to be the organiser of the campaign and had compiled a computer file containing details of the victims. Following their acquittal one of the victims of the bomb attacks, former Vienna mayor Helmut Zilk, dismissed the trial as a "cabaret" and criticised "catastrophic defects in the investigations." At the beginning of December another four letter bombs, sent from the southern city of Graz days before the parliamentary elections, exploded prematurely in a letter box. Interpress, 22.12.95.

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