Today\u2019s court day was rather short, three police officers testified as witnesses:
\nThe first witness, a federal criminal police detective, had dealt with a postcard found in the Fr\u00fchlingsstra\u00dfe apartment. This card was sent to the Fr\u00fchlingsstra\u00dfe apartment from Dortmund about six months before the murder of Mehmet Kuba\u015fik in that city. The banal text \u2013 \u201cVery warm greetings the weather is nice bye\u201d was very likely written by Uwe B\u00f6hnhardt. The day the card was sent corresponds with a caravan rental, there is also a list of potential murder victims in Dortmund which was printed out on the next day, with remarks such as \u201cgood object, suitable owner.\u201d Apparently, Mundlos and B\u00f6hnhardt found time while scouting out potential murder victims to send Zsch\u00e4pe in Zwickau a postcard showing a baby elephant.<\/p>\n
Next witness was a police officer who had, in 1997, authored two reports summarizing police intelligence regarding B\u00f6hnhardt and Mundlos \u2013 however, today he remembered having written these reports, but did not remember their content.<\/p>\n
The third witness, another federal detective, reported on rather extensive investigations concerning a pay and display ticket found in the mobile home in Eisenach on 4 November 2011. According to the investigations, this vehicle was parked in Leipzig on 25 October 2011, very close to a hospital where accused Eminger was a patient at the time. Apparently, then, the trio visited Eminger in the hospital \u2013 further evidence for the close connection between Eminger and Zsch\u00e4pe, Mundlos and B\u00f6hnhardt until the very end. Given the way the trial has been conducted so far, it hardly needs to be said that these investigations occurred only after a motion by victims\u2019 counsel \u2013 apparently both federal police and federal prosecutors saw no need to follow this link. Their aim to present the trio as an isolated group seems to be more important to them than proving the guilt of accused Eminger.<\/p>\n
According to the list of witness for the next weeks, the court will continue dealing with physical evidence for quite a while \u2013 to give one example, the taking of evidence concerning maps found in the Fr\u00fchlingsstra\u00dfe apartment alone will take up several days.<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u00a0and on Thursday, the court will hear the report of an expert witness on DNA evidence \u2013 we will report on his testimony on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The difficulty of the plains: Dealing with the physical evidence Today\u2019s court day was rather short, three police officers testified as witnesses: The first witness, a federal criminal police detective, had dealt with a postcard found in the Fr\u00fchlingsstra\u00dfe apartment. This card was sent to the Fr\u00fchlingsstra\u00dfe apartment from Dortmund about six months before the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}