Nazi SS man investigated for incitement over Ascq massacre

Prosecutors in northern Germany are investigating a 96-year-old man who was involved in the massacre of 86 French men and boys in a village in northern France in April 1944.

Karl Münter was sentenced to death in France in absentia in 1949, and can no longer be prosecuted for the killings.

But he caused outrage in a TV interview when he blamed the victims for the massacre because they ran away.

He is now being investigated for incitement to hatred.

He denies firing a shot, insisting he was only ordered to carry out arrests.

But he has no regrets over the World War Two slaughter.

He told a German TV programme last year: "If I arrest the men I'm responsible for them. And if they run away I have the right to shoot them."

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