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On [[November 6]], [[2003]], a British inquest heard allegations that the Schiller Institute is a
"political [[cult]] with sinister and dangerous connections,"<ref name=DugganInquest-01>[http://www.justiceforjeremiah.com/html/inquest.html British Inquest: Coroner's Court transcript], ''Justice for Jeremiah'' website, undated, retrieved March 26, 2007.</ref><ref name=Townsend>Townsend, Mark. [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1340301,00.html "The student, the shadowy cult and a mother's fight for justice"], ''The Observer'', October 31, 2004.</ref> and that it may have used controversial recruitment techniques<ref name=Witt>Witt, April. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46883-2004Oct20.html "No Joke"], ''The Washington Post'', October 24, 2004.</ref> on a 22-year-old British-[[Jew]]ish student who died in March 2003 in disputed circumstances. [[Jeremiah Duggan]] had been attending a Schiller Institute conference in Wiesbaden, Germany;<ref>[http://www.schillerinstitute.org/conf-iclc/2003/bd_schw/program.html March 2003 conference attended by Duggan].</ref> he died days later after running out onto a busy road. The German police decided that he had committed suicide; a British inquest rejected that verdict after hearing testimony about the nature of the Schiller Institute. Since then, a number of alternative theories have been proposed,<ref name=Muir>Muir, Hugh. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,1077921,00.html "British student did not commit suicide, says coroner"], ''The Guardian'', November 5, 2003.</ref><ref name=Townsend>Townsend, Mark & Doward, Jammie. [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2042209,00.html "New evidence shows 'suicide' student was beaten to death"], ''The Observer'', March 25, 2007.</ref> which are firmly rejected by the German authorities.<ref name=Degen>Degen, Wolfgang, [http://www.main-rheiner.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2793524 "Nur die Legende hat ein langes Leben"], ''Wiesbadener Kurier'', April 19, 2007.</ref> The [[Simon Wiesenthal Center]] has asked the German justice minister to determine whether Duggan's being Jewish played a role in his death, in light of notes Duggan made during the conference, which "apparently point[ed] to stereotyping and antisemitic conspiracy theories."<ref name=Wiesenthal>[http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/s/content.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=253162&ct=3243859 "Wiesenthal Centre Appeals to German Justice Minister: "Reopen Investigation into Death of Jewish Student Attending Larouche Movement Seminar on Iraq War"], Simon Weisenthal Center, November 10, 2006.</ref><ref name=Degen>Degen, Wolfgang, [http://www.main-rheiner.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2793524 "Nur die Legende hat ein langes Leben"], ''Wiesbadener Kurier'', April 19, 2007.</ref><ref name=Steinberg>Steinberg, Jeffrey. [http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/site_packages/3125symons.html "The Bizarre Case of Baroness Symons"], ''[[Executive Intelligence Review]]'', June 25, 2004.</ref> Coverage in the ''Wiesbadener Kurier'' refers to the various theories as "legends" (''Legende'',) and indicates that the theories keep gaining new adherents, but no evidence. <ref name=Degen>Degen, Wolfgang, [http://www.main-rheiner.de/region/objekt.php3?artikel_id=2793524 "Nur die Legende hat ein langes Leben"], ''Wiesbadener Kurier'', April 19, 2007.</ref>
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