ANIMAL FORUM

Mystery death of anti-war student

Family calls for new German police inquiry after crucial questions left
unanswered

Hugh Muir
Saturday July 12, 2003
The Guardian

The family of a British student who died mysteriously after attending
meetings organised by a rightwing political group in Germany have called for
a new investigation into his death.
Jeremiah Duggan, 22, was hit by a series of vehicles on a road outside
Wiesbaden, western Germany, in March. German police concluded that Mr
Duggan, who was studying English literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, had
committed suicide.

But following private inquiries, his family are pressing for the German
authorities to take a fresh look at the case and at the activities of the
group he was staying with. The Metropolitan police yesterday confirmed its
officers are liaising with their German counterparts and Interpol.

He had travelled to Wiesbaden with a group of young men selling the
newspaper Nouvelle Solidarit