
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, January 18, 1994                   TAG: 9401180066
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SUHL, GERMANY                                LENGTH: Short

NEO-NAZIS CONVICTED IN ATTACK ON LUGE RACER

Two neo-Nazis were convicted and sentenced to jail Monday for leading a beating attack on a U.S. luge racer after insulting his black teammate.

The Oct. 29 attack on Duncan Kennedy in the winter resort of Oberhof embarrassed Germany and outraged Americans. It was the first against an American in a wave of neo-Nazi violence that has swept Germany since unification in 1990.

Tino Voelkel, 16, and Silvio Eschrich, 21, were found guilty of causing grievous bodily harm Monday after a one-day trial.

The three-judge court sentenced Eschrich to two years and eight months in jail and Voelkel to one year. They could have received up to five years. - Associated Press

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