11:05am Wednesday 18th February 2004
By Sophie Kummer
The mother of Jeremiah Duggan, who died in Germany after becoming involved with a far-right political group, has been promised a meeting with the Foreign Office.
Erica Duggan, of Dunstan Road, Golders Green, said the Government department contacted her yesterday (February 18) to offer her a meeting early next week.
She said: "I have been asking for the last six months to have a meeting, and asked them to intervene on my behalf and ask the German authorities to reopen their investigations."
Jeremiah, 22, was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, but he died after attending a conference in Wiesbaden, Germany, run by the LaRouche Youth Movement, which is believed to have anti-Semitic leanings.
He was run over by three cars on a German motorway in March last year, just 45 minutes after phoning his mother to say he was in trouble.
Hornsey coroner William Dolman ruled out the German authorities' suggestion that Jeremiah took his own life.
Mrs Duggan, 57, said: "The coroner found there was no evidence of suicide and my point is there is no evidence to say foul play was not involved.
"I am calling for an investigation into Jeremiah's death and into the LaRouche organisation, and I am very hopeful the Foreign Office here will intervene on my behalf."
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