Amazon fires German security firm amid probe

BERLIN (AP) - Amazon has fired a German security company amid mounting criticism after reports that temporary workers had been mistreated.

An Amazon spokesman in Germany, Ms Ulrike Stoecker, said on Monday the online retailer has ended its relationship with Hensel European Security Services "with immediate effect."

A documentary shown on ARD public television last week showed staff of the security company - whose initials spell out the name of Adolf Hitler's deputy Hess - wearing clothes linked to Germany's neo-Nazi scene. It interviewed people claiming they were mistreated by the staff.

Ms Stoecker told The Associated Press that Amazon has a "zero tolerance limit for discrimination and intimidation and expects the same of other companies it works with".