The alleged neo-Nazi cell operated for more than ten years without being noticed by German security agencies German security officials have been meeting to discuss the threat from far-right groups, after a suspected neo-Nazi cell went undetected for a decade and allegedly killed 10 people.The Berlin gathering brings together ministers from the federal government and the 16 German Laender (states).
Intelligence agencies and police have been criticised for failing to detect the neo-Nazi group.
Newspaper revelations about its activities have shocked many Germans.
The existence of the cell only emerged this week when one alleged member surrendered and two others reportedly killed themselves.
The two men, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Boenhardt, were found dead in a caravan in Eisenach in eastern Germany.
They had left behind a DVD in which they admitted to the 10 killings. The dead allegedly included nine immigrants - eight from Turkey and one from Greece - and a police officer.
Intelligence failureThe woman who handed herself in, Beate Zschaepe, was wanted in connection with an armed robbery.
She had blown up her flat in the eastern city of Zwickau before surrendering.
Germany's 16 states have separate justice and security arrangements and have been accused of failing to share intelligence on unsolved killings The three are reported by German media to have had close links going back to the 1990s.
Police have arrested another suspected member of the group - which called itself the National Socialist Underground.
Detectives are reopening all unsolved cases stretching back to 1998 in which possible racist motives could have been involved.
The neo-Nazi cell is also suspected of carrying out a bomb attack in Cologne and a number of bank robberies.
Police and intelligence agencies from around Germany have been accused of failing to share information.
German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper she wanted to see the 16 German Laender merge their intelligence agencies.
Earlier this week Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said a national database would be set up listing neo-Nazi extremists.
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