{"id":1074,"date":"2015-12-09T18:01:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T17:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2015-12-10T09:13:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T08:13:45","slug":"9-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/2015\/12\/09\/9-december-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"9 December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much ado about nothing \u2013 on Beate Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s statement.<\/h4>\n

Today, Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s defense attorney read out a statement of Beate Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s according to which she had nothing to do with the crimes of the NSU. This statement is totally unbelievable and will turn out to have been \u201cprocedural suicide\u201d, as prognosticated by her old counsel Heer, Stahl and Sturm. This is clear from the face of the statement and will become even clearer in the next weeks.<\/p>\n

We therefore want to concentrate on two aspects:<\/p>\n

\u201cI do not accept the so-called apology for the crimes of Mundlos and B\u00f6hnhardt \u2013 it is an affront, particularly when it comes with the announcement that none of our questions will be answered.\u201d<\/h5>\n

Thus the reaction of Gamze Kuba\u015fik, daughter of Mehmet Kuba\u015fik, whom the NSU killed in Dortmund in 2004, to Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s statement. After all, this statement \u2013 and the way in which it has been brought about \u2013 is a severe affront to the victims of the NSU crimes.<\/p>\n

First of all, Zsch\u00e4pe and her defense counsel tried to keep the date for the statement secret until the end, which would have meant that none of the victims would have been able to come to Munich (see the blog post of [link] 10 November 2015<\/a>). Today, she had Grasel give copies of the statement to the court, prosecution and other defense teams, but not to the victims and their counsel. And she has announced that she will answer not only the court\u2019s questions, but also those of other defense teams \u2013 but not questions posed by victims\u2019 counsel or indeed by the victims themselves.<\/p>\n

Following these announcements, she has her counsel read out a fully unbelievable, fabricated statement dripping with self-pity, in which she gives the precise address and date of each bank robbery, but does not even find it necessary to name most of the murder victims. And at the end of this statement, she had the audacity to issue an \u201eapology\u201c for her \u201emoral responsibility\u201c. It is not surprising that this attempt is rejected by the victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf all brothers remain silent\u201d<\/h5>\n

This is even more so since Zsch\u00e4pe does not draw any consequences from the responsibility she claims to feel. Of course victims want to know, among other questions, who was part of the NSU\u2019s network, who supported the NSU in its crimes. However, Zsch\u00e4pe hardly mentioned such issues at all.<\/p>\n

She continues to cover for all NSU supporters, refused to say one word concerning the role of accused Eminger, who was close to Zsch\u00e4pe, Mundlos and B\u00f6hnhardt until the end, refused to name the various Nazis surrounding the \u201cComradeship Jena\u201d and \u201cBlood and Honour\u201d Chemnitz who helped them go underground \u2013 all issues she would be well-equipped to elucidate if she chose to do so. Two examples that prove the rule: She named Tino Brandt as a leading member of the \u201cThuringia Home Guard\u201d \u2013 but then of course Brandt has meantime been exposed as a secret service informer and had made incriminating statements against \u201cthose from Jena\u201d in court. And she related that Thomas Starke had provided the explosives used for the pipe bombs found in the Jena garage \u2013 as Starke had already himself told the police.<\/p>\n

It is apparent that Zsch\u00e4pe, too, still follows that line from the SS \u201csong of faithfulness\u201caccording to which \u201call brothers (and sisters) remain silent\u201d \u2013 even where they have lengthy statements read out. The Wohlleben defense had stated, when announcing their client\u2019s statement, that Wohlleben had \u201cremained true to his ideals and political convictions and will continue to do so.\u201d With her statement today, Zsch\u00e4pe has shown that much the same is true for her, that for her too the connection to her Nazi \u201ccomrades\u201d is more important than her so-called \u201capologies\u201d to the NSU\u2019s victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much ado about nothing \u2013 on Beate Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s statement. Today, Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s defense attorney read out a statement of Beate Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s according to which she had nothing to do with the crimes of the NSU. This statement is totally unbelievable and will turn out to have been \u201cprocedural suicide\u201d, as prognosticated by her old counsel Heer, […]<\/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-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","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=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}