His support was far higher than expected and looks likely to raise concerns about latent anti-Semitism in what opinion polls currently rate as Germany’s most popular political party. Yesterday, 26 people, mostly Christian Democrat members, signed a full-page notice,which appeared in several national newspapers, calling for solidarity with the ousted MP. The signatories accused the CDU leadership of choosing “a political death sentence” for Mr Hohmann instead of a “fair discussion”. Mr Hohmann’s unprecedented expulsion, the first in the party’s history, proved a serious embarrassment to party leaders when 28 MPs voted against the motion to eject him from the House and 16 abstained. Martin Hohmann, a right-wing MP, was stripped of his right to vote with the main conservative party or speak on its behalf in parliament, and was banished to the back benches after 81 per cent of CDU MPs voted to eject him from the Bundestag. The German politician at the centre of a growing anti-Semitism scandal was expelled from the parliamentary wing of the opposition Christian Democrat party yesterday for saying the Jews in the Russian revolution were as much “a race of perpetrators” as the Germans were under Hitler. Security for the Williams family is being increased.The Sunday World is a brash tabloid that specialises in exposing the activities of gangland figures, including their involvement in drugs, robberies, brothels and other illegal activities..

A number of men who were associated with the group at various stages have drifted away from terrorism and into straight crime.Some of them would have the capacity to make hoax bombs such as the one used yesterday. They have killed two of my colleagues, and it is not going to happen any more.”Among the suspects are former members of the Irish National Liberation Army, a terrorist group that is now largely inactive. I’ve an idea who did it but we’re not going to go into it now.” He added: “We are living in an era where organised crime seems to be taking off, and criminals are intimidating everybody and threatening everybody They are not going to intimidate or threaten me. The government recently announced plans to devote more police resources and money to the problem.Mr Williams said yesterday: “What’s really upsetting me and really depressing me is the fact that all these neighbours, really good neighbours of mine, have actually had to move out. The Dublin crime scene is particularly dangerous now, with gangs resorting to murder in disputes over drugs and money. More than a dozen gangland killings have taken place in Dublin this year, with others occurringin Limerick.

It contained wires, batteries, putty and a circuit board, but no explosives.The incident is regarded as a threat to Mr Williams, who writes articles and books on the Dublin criminal underworld that often rattle the dangerous characters who inhabit it.In 1996 Ms Guerin, a crime correspondent, was shot dead by criminals. A prominent Dublin crime correspondent, who works on a sister paper to that of Veronica Guerin, the murdered journalist, was the target of a hoax bomb attack yesterday.
A device was planted under the car of Paul Williams, of the Sunday World, outside his south Dublin home in the early hours of the morning.Almost 40 homes in the housing estate were evacuated while the “bomb” was examined by Irish army experts who eventually declared it to be an elaborate hoax. Mr Jandora said: “We are aware of the state’s defence needs, but we trust that a more suitable location can be found that is not a protected, historic landmark.”Mr Pszczel said selection of the site “is really in the hands of the host nation – the Czech Republic.” But Mr Zivotsky said the Defence Ministry had ruled out alternative locations.. He acknowledged the terrorist concerns but said: “We all face the terrorist challenge.” He said Nato would help the Czechs to allay terrorist fears.One opponent of the scheme, Miroslav Jandora, said activists had asked Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, Nato’s secretary general, to intervene. Robert Pszczel, a Nato spokesman, said the radar stations planned for the Czech Republic were part of an “essential” chain covering the alliance’s territory.

“It seems very unfair that we have to ask permission to change our windows whereas the government can put up a big ugly radar station without consulting anyone,” he said.The Czech Republic, which with Hungary and Poland was the first former Soviet bloc country to join Nato, is keen to be an enthusiastic member of the alliance. It says the site near Sokolnice is the best location for the station.Miroslav Kostelka, the Czech Defence Minister, held a meeting with mayors and representatives of the local communities last month but did not offer any compromise. He said: “The most serious fear is that as there are only two such radars planned for the Czech Republic we will become a target for terrorists.”The area was listed and residents had to obey strict planning regulations if they wanted to alter their homes. Mr Zivotsky said the village had lodged a lawsuit to halt the work but had not yet been given a date for court proceedings. Jiri Zivotsky, the mayor of Sokolnice, said people were angry that the government began work two years ago, without consulting villagers, at a nearby Cold War-era military facility. Above it is a pyramidal tower with concave scalloped sides.The village of Sokolnice, which lies about two miles from the monument, is at the forefront of opposition to the €29m (£20m) radar station due for completion in 2006. Called the Burial Mound of Peace and about the size of the Albert Memorial, its base holds a chapel where some of the bones of the dead are interred.