The only witness today was a criminal police detective from Berlin who was to testify about a telephone surveillance conducted, in the context of the investigation into Nazi band \u201cLandser\u201d, against Blood and Honour leader Jan Werner from Chemnitz in 1998-2001. On 25 August 1998, Werner had send a text message \u201cWhat about the bang?\u201d to a cell phone belonging to secret service informer Carsten Szczepanski. This indicates that Werner was tasked with buying a gun for Zsch\u00e4pe, Mundlos and B\u00f6hnhardt and trying to enlist Szczepanski\u2019s help, and thus also that there was an opening to effect an arrest of the three who had gone underground \u2013 a chance the Brandenburg secret service chose not to use (see the report of\u00a015 March 2016<\/a>).<\/p>\n Today\u2019s witness claimed not to remember anything concerning the topic of guns, nor anything concerning Blood and Honour membership of persons involved, nor his interviews with various parliamentary inquiry commissions, nor any other topic which could have proven relevant \u2013 he stated that, in the context of a promotion, he had \u201cswitched into the area of combatting left wing extremism\u201d. In the beginning, it seemed conceivable that his memory gaps were real and simply based on a lack of interest. However, this impression changed, at the latest, when he was questioned by victims\u2019 counsel, inter alia about testimony from the parliamentary commissions which indicated that he had been involved in recruiting Blood and Honour activist Thomas Starke as an informer for the criminal police in Berlin. At this point, his attempts to simply duck all questions became quite brazen and bizarre.<\/p>\n His testimony thus did not lead to anything of interest for the trial in Munich.
\nWohlleben defense attorney Klemke continued his attempts at defending the Nazi scene as such by bringing a challenge for alleged bias against expert witness Leygraf, based on Leygraf\u2019s asking Carsten Schultze how he had dealt with the \u201cwidespread xenophobic slogans\u201d in the scene. Klemke thus continues in the vein of the defense\u2019s laughable thesis that Wohlleben and the \u201cThuringia Home Guard\u201d had not been xenophobes after all \u2013 Wohlleben himself had already made reference to \u201cethnopluralist\u201d videos and texts found on his computer (see the report of\u00a028 April 2016<\/a>).<\/p>\n