The only witness today was Tom Turner, a co-founder of the \u201cKameradschaft Jena\u201d with the Trio, Wohlleben, Gerlach and others who had left the group after a few months since the regulations within the Kameradschaft proved too strict for him and he wanted to focus on his Skinhead band instead. Turner had been summoned to testify several times before, but had never appeared; on the last date in question he had submitted a doctor\u2019s note. Today he appeared and gave rather detailed evidence. However, his testimony had to be interrupted in the early afternoon, it will be continued in October.<\/p>\n
Turner had, already in his police interview, given rather detailed statements concerning the ideological underpinnings of the \u201cKameradschaft Jena\u201d, including that Mundlos had been a committed and inexorable national Socialist who never backed down in political arguments, that B\u00f6hnhardt had a \u201cthing for weapons\u201d and was prone to violence already back then, and that Beate Zsch\u00e4pe had \u201cof course\u201d been a member of the Kameradschaft from the start, even if he did not remember any concrete political statements by her. He had also related that Wohlleben and Kapke agreed with Mundlos\u2019 political statements and that Gerlach too was an equal member of the Kameradschaft from the beginning. Finally, he had also related that the group had watched videos of militant Nazi groups from Scandinavia and had led discussions concerning the use of violence \u2013 accused Gerlach had also talked about these discussions in his statement before the court.<\/p>\n
Today, Turner generally confirmed all this, but tried to downplay some of his statements \u2013 it seems possible that he, who is not active in Nazi organizations anymore, is afraid of reprisals by his former \u201ccomrades\u201d if he incriminates Zsch\u00e4pe with his testimony.<\/p>\n