This morning the court heard a witness on the robbery of a post office in Chemnitz. This was followed by the federal prosecution\u2019s comments on victims counsel motions for evidence concerning secret service informer \u201cprimus\u201d, Ralf Marschner as well as connections between the Nazi scene and the general criminal scene in Thuringia.<\/p>\n
Prosecutor Diemer asked that the motions concerning Marschner be denied in their entirety, arguing that the factual claims made, if proven, would have no influence on the court\u2019s judgment. Victims\u2019 counsel pointed out that this was another clear case of the prosecution reneging on its promise to the NSU\u2019s victims to clear up all relevant facts.<\/p>\n
Informer Marschner was one of the big names in the Saxonian Nazi scene, proprietor of scene shops selling music and clothes as well as a contractor firm. Another member of the scene had reported that he had seen B\u00f6hnhardt and Mundlos in 1998, shortly after they had gone underground, with a fat man and his dog; his description of the fat man fits Marschner. Two of his staff members had reported that they knew Zsch\u00e4pe from one of the shops \u2013 it remains unclear, however, whether she was there as a customer or as a saleswoman. A business partner of Marschner\u2019s reported that he recognized the photos of Zsch\u00e4pe from the wanted poster as a woman whom he had met several times in one of Marschner\u2019s shops and who may well have worked there. Finally, a former foreman with his contracting firm had told journalists from German daily \u201cDie Welt<\/a>\u201d that Uwe Mundlos had worked there under the alias of Max-Florian Burkhardt.<\/p>\n \u201cDie Welt\u201d has also found out that Marschner\u2019s contracting firm had often rented vans from the same firm where the NSU, under their aliases, had also rented vans which they then used for murders and bank robberies. Marschner\u2019s firm had inter alia rented vehicles on 13 June 2001, the day Abdurrahim \u00d6z\u00fcdo\u011fru was murdered in Nuremberg, as well as 29 August 2001, the day of the murder of Habil K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 in Munich.<\/p>\n The prosecution\u2019s claims that these are simple rumors ignore that its own investigations had also led to such witness statements. And if their claim that such issues are without relevance for the judgment were true, the court could have dispensed with about 70 % of the witnesses heard so far.<\/p>\n This shows once more that the prosecution is simply blocking further elucidation of the facts and protecting the secret service.<\/p>\n At the end of the trial day, victims\u2019 counsel brought a motion for evidence, asking that the court consider several pictures taken during Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s, Mundlos\u2019 and B\u00f6hnhardt\u2019s summer vacation 2004, shortly after the bombing attack on the Keupstra\u00dfe in Cologne. Zsch\u00e4pe had claimed to have been aghast when she was told of the attack, that her relationship to B\u00f6hnhardt had become frosty. These pictures, which show a happy, untroubled couple, clearly disprove her claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Federal prosecution reneges on its promise to clear up the facts This morning the court heard a witness on the robbery of a post office in Chemnitz. This was followed by the federal prosecution\u2019s comments on victims counsel motions for evidence concerning secret service informer \u201cprimus\u201d, Ralf Marschner as well as connections between the Nazi […]<\/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-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","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=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}