The statement by Beate Zsch\u00e4pe had been expected to be read out today. However, it was again postponed, this time until tomorrow.<\/p>\n
Her counsel Borchert had told the court yesterday that Zsch\u00e4pe was not feeling well as she had suffered a nervous breakdown after her cell had been searched. He asked that her statement be postponed until Wednesday and announced that he would not take part in the trial today. Today, Zsch\u00e4pe told the presiding judge that she was feeling well. Her counsel Grasel announced that the statement would nonetheless only be read out tomorrow. As to questions by the court, he wished that those be put in writing, they would be answered in writing as well. Referring to the \u201cintense strain\u201d that Zsch\u00e4pe would feel after her statement, he asked that the court cancel the trial day on Thursday.<\/p>\n
It almost seems like the court has ceded control over the day-to-day functioning of the trial to Zsch\u00e4pe. Of course it is understandable that the court does \u2013 and accepts \u2013 a lot to make sure that Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s silence is broken. On the other hand, it cannot be accepted that it also allows her to dictate the method of questioning. If the questioning of the accused by the court is to meaningful, it must consist of a communicative process, thus \u201cquestioning\u201d by written questions and written answer simply cannot work. Accordingly, the court must make sure the accused understands that she needs to make a decision: either she has additional information to relate, in that case she needs to answer questions in person and in court. Or she continues to remain silent. The credibility of a written statement is rather limited in any event. What has become clear is that Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s new defense attorneys are also trying to remain in control of her statements.<\/p>\n
For some general ideas about the announced statements by accused Zsch\u00e4pe and Wohlleben, see the blog post by victims\u2019 counsel Eberhard Reinecke<\/a> (in German).<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Wohlleben defense has announced that Wohlleben will make a statement, but not this week. His three attorneys had recently sent out a press release, which included the statement that Wohlleben \u201chas remained true to his ideals and political convictions and will continue to do so\u201d. The press release was entitled \u201cDer Wahrheit eine Gasse\u201d (roughly: \u201cMaking Way for the Truth\u201d) \u2013 a title previously used by a number of historical and current National Socialists, as reported by NSU Watch<\/a> (in German).<\/p>\n Today, the court heard testimony by a police officer concerning railway customer cards used by B\u00f6hnhardt, Mundlos and Zsch\u00e4pe. The card for B\u00f6hnhardt had been issued under the name Andr\u00e9 Eminger, that for Zsch\u00e4pe under the name Susan Eminger. Costs had been charged to bank accounts used by the Emingers in 2010\/2011.<\/p>\n The court also read out two articles from the fanzine \u201cWhite Supremacy\u201d published under pseudonyms \u2013 according to secret service informers, they had been authored by Mundlos. Finally, it read out some documents concerning informer \u201ctariff\u201d \u2013 the court still has to decide on the motion by victims\u2019 counsel that he be called to testify (see the reports of\u00a018 March 2014 <\/a>and\u00a020 October 2015<\/a>). Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s statement postponed again, now expected for tomorrow The statement by Beate Zsch\u00e4pe had been expected to be read out today. However, it was again postponed, this time until tomorrow. Her counsel Borchert had told the court yesterday that Zsch\u00e4pe was not feeling well as she had suffered a nervous breakdown after her cell had […]<\/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-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","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=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEverybody \u2013 most of all the press \u2013 now expects that Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s statement will finally be read out tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"