“German authorities disbanded a Frankfurt police commando unit Thursday over suspected far-right links to a group of active officers, the latest in a string of extremist-related scandals to blight the country’s police and military. Peter Beuth, interior minister for the Hesse state where Frankfurt is located, said ‘unacceptable misconduct’ prompted the decision to close the unit. He also said superiors had turned a ‘blind eye.’ Hesse’s prosecutor on Wednesday said the office was investigating 20 officers from the force with the majority suspected of sending messages in far-right chat groups, including Nazi symbols and ‘inciting content.’ Three supervising officers were accused of failing to stop or report the exchanges. All but one of the 20 was on active duty. The chat groups were uncovered after examining the phone of an officer suspected of possessing and distributing child pornography. One officer has been officially suspended, the others have been ‘banned from conducting official business,’ the public prosecutor said.” – Washington Post.