A man arrested on suspicion of murdering a senior politician in Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats has links to Germany’s increasingly militant Far-right scene, local media reported last night.

Police in the central state of Hessen confirmed yesterday that they had detained a 45-year-old man on suspicion of murdering Walter Lübcke, the head of government in the city of Kassel.

Mr Lübcke, who had clashed with the far-Right over the immigration issue, was shot in the head on his garden patio late at night on June 2nd and died almost immediately.