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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
March 27th, 2007
CONTACT:
Chip Berlet, Senior Analyst
Poltical Research Associates | 617-666-5300
Berlet Joins Call for Probe into Death of Student who Attended LaRouche-Group Conference
BOSTON -- PRA Senior Analyst Chip Berlet, an
internationally known expert on the political cult leader
Lyndon LaRouche, has been assisting the mother of
a young British man found dead after trying to leave a
conference sponsored by a LaRouche-related group
in March 2003 in Germany. In a new development, on
Tuesday, March 27, new forensic findings concluding
that Jeremiah Duggan, 22, had been beaten to death
while trying to defend himself from attack will be
presented in London to government officials in the UK
with a request for a new inquest by Germany. German
authorities have claimed Jeremiah committed suicide
by jumping in front of cars on a highway, but a British
Coroner refused to accept that conclusion.
In her campaign to reopen the investigation,
Jeremiah’s mother Erica has secured research
assistance from Berlet, including a statement
presented to the British coroner and a statement for
the March 27 press conference on the new findings.
Berlet’s 2003 statement to the British coroner
concludes, "Given the history of aggressive behaviour
on the part of LaRouche Security forces, it is quite
possible and even likely that Jeremiah Duggan was
subjected to extreme emotional pressure or physical
intimidation."
Jeremiah had traveled to Germany to attend an anti-
war conference that turned out to be sponsored by the
LaRouchites, who have a history of spreading
antisemitic conspiracy theories. Soon after Jeremiah
told the conference he was Jewish and was
concerned by the rhetoric he was hearing, he was
found dead.
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