Today, the trial was once more interrupted very early upon motion of the Wohlleben defense, who announced their intention to challenge the presiding judge and another member of the bench for alleged bias. However, it seems that the defense realized that such a challenge would invite ridicule \u2013 after the break, they stated that they would not bring such challenges after all.<\/p>\n
The court then continued the questioning of witness Mario Brehme (on his earlier court appearances see the reports of 15 July 2015<\/a> and 14 October 2015<\/a>). Last time, he had been asked whether he had worked for a secret service agency as an informer. The court had in the meantime asked all secret service agencies whether Brehme had worked for them, which all of them had denied. Therefore Brehme\u2019s appearance today only lasted a few minutes and did not provide him another opportunity for Nazi propaganda.<\/p>\n Next up in the witness box was a police officer testifying on the browser history of a PC found in Holger Gerlach\u2019s apartment. This included several bookmarks leading to Nazi mail order firms and other Nazi websites, including \u201cBlood & Honour\u201d, as well as an interesting internet search which happened after the suicide of Mundlos and B\u00f6hnhardt, but before Gerlach\u2019s arrest on 5 November 2011: An internet search for \u201cexplosion Eisenach\u201d led to several media reports on the bank robbery and the events surrounding the mobile home in Eisenach. This was followed immediately by research on how long convictions for drug offences remained in the official files, and by a search for Stefan Hachmeister, who is now Gerlach\u2019s defense attorney in the trial. It seems that the very few facts known about the events in Eisenach at that time were already sufficient for Gerlach to prepare for being arrested \u2013 the theory presented by his defense, according to which his girlfriend or her daughter could have conducted these searches, seems more than far-fetched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A rare day without a challenge for alleged bias Today, the trial was once more interrupted very early upon motion of the Wohlleben defense, who announced their intention to challenge the presiding judge and another member of the bench for alleged bias. However, it seems that the defense realized that such a challenge would invite […]<\/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-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","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=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}