An official inquiry has concluded that police and security services in Germany bungled the hunt for three neo-Nazis who years later turned out to be the main suspects in a far-right murder spree.
Lawmakers in the eastern state of Thuringia say efforts to find the fugitive trio from their disappearance in 1998 until 2003 were a "complete disaster."
A 1,895-page report published Thursday lists a string of errors by investigators who failed to follow up leads that could have led to their arrest.