The only witness today had also dealt with the NSU notes from their scouting out potential victims. A map of Northern Germany showed a marking concerning an industrial estate in western Mecklenburg. Investigations showed that there was a printer\u2019s shop which had been searched during the investigation into prohibited Nazi music.<\/p>\n
Victims\u2019 counsel then brought several motions for evidence concerning the claimed \u201cexit\u201d of accused Gerlach from the Nazi scene. Gerlach had claimed in court that he had begun distancing himself mentally from the Nazi scene since 1999 and had finally \u201cexited\u201d the scene in 2004, but had visited two Nazi demonstrations after that time (on his statement in court, see the report of\u00a03 June 2013<\/a>). The evidence will show that these claims are untrue: In 2002\/2003, Gerlach was still a member of the inner circle surrounding NS multi-functionary Heise \u2013 a circle to which only ideologically [gefestigt] \u201ccomrades\u201d had access. Gerlach took part in at least one additional Nazi demonstration, Gerlach visited several Nazi websites until 2011, he sent text messages containing horrible racist language in 2011, and he was matter-of-factly invited to a concert of violent Nazi organization Hammerskins in Italy. His computer also shows several deleted image files of the \u201cPink Panther\u201d \u2013 depending on the concrete date they were deleted, which has not so far been established, this could tend to prove his knowledge of the video with which the NSU claimed responsibility for its crimes.<\/p>\n Further motions concerned discussions of Thorsten Heise with \u201ccomrades\u201d including Tino Brandt, secretly recorded by Heise. In these discussions, Brandt described the \u201cKameradschaft Jena\u201d as an \u201cabsolute NS-organization\u201d and held the view that the secret service could believe, \u201cconcerning the three from Jena who went underground\u201d, that the \u201cThuringia Home Guard\u201d could be the legal arm of a terrorist organization. Heise talks of \u201cseveral\u201d armed groups to be found all over Germany.<\/p>\n