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The Solingen arson attack has engraved itself deeply into the collective consciousness of the German people. Therefore this
criminal incident was the first to come back to their minds when a house was set on fire in Ludwigshafen by the end of 2007.
The Solingen trial (which is the book's title, too) began in 1993 and ended two years later. This trial brought to light –
in full view of the public – how intensively parts of the German secret service Verfassungsschutz cooperate under cover
with fashist circles. (It was on account of this cooperation that the trial to ban the fashist party NPD in the beginning of our
decade broke down.) The then minister of interior affairs of NRW had to resign before the end of the trial.
Nearly every day of the two years lasting trial revealed a couple of investigation hitches. There had been lots of circumstantial
evidences but in the trial it turned out that not a single piece of them could be found or had been kept usable as evidence.
Trying to find out the facts I began to feel grave doubts about all this to be pure bad luck. I have documented all the facts
substantiating my doubts in a great number of footnotes.
This book has been introduced to the public by Patmos-Verlag and by municipal officials of Solingen in 1996 in the municipal
hall of Solingen-Ohligs. The event was attended by about 150 people.
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