{"id":1241,"date":"2016-07-26T18:13:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2016-07-26T18:13:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:13:42","slug":"26-july-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/2016\/07\/26\/26-july-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"26 July 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

More on the \u201eNSU letter\u201c<\/h4>\n

Today the court questioned another editor of a Nazi fanzine \u2013 the \u201cStandard Bearer\u201d (Fahnentr\u00e4ger) from Saxony-Anhalt. The witness stated that in the summer of 2002, he had received the \u201cNSU letter\u201d and a 500\u20ac-bill via mail. Other than that, he claimed not to remember anything \u2013 the only thing he was sure of was that his zine had been called \u201cStandard Bearer\u201d and not \u201cThe Standard Bearer\u201d.<\/p>\n

The \u201cmemory gaps\u201d presented by this witness proved too brazen even for the federal prosecution, who began to question him quite extensively. This culminated in a successful motion to exclude his witness counsel from the trial \u2013 counsel had \u201ccoached\u201d the witness, who obviously did not want to answer a certain question, to falsely claim not to remember anything. Of course, the energy put into this display by the prosecution would have been better placed into the questioning of several earlier Nazi witnesses feigning memory gaps. The witness was sent home for today and will have to appear again in September, accompanied by a different counsel.<\/p>\n

His testimony today did not bring out anything new regarding the \u201cNSU letter\u201d \u2013 some aspects had already been cleared up through the search of NPD parliamentarian David Petereit\u2019s flat and Petereit\u2019s testimony (see the report of\u00a013 July 2016<\/a>): Zsch\u00e4pe, Mundlos and B\u00f6hnhardt kept up to date as far as neo-Nazi fanzines, organizations and publishers were concerned while they lived in Chemnitz and Zwickau, they tried to support their activities with money stemming from the robberies.<\/p>\n

However, a number of questions remain unanswered: the federal criminal police and federal prosecutor had conducted hardly any investigations at all into how the NSU chose the recipients, whether the zines were chosen because their ideology jibed with that shown in the NSU\u2019s crimes, whether the recipients had personal connections to the NSU and its supporters. After all, had such investigations led to concrete results, they would have endangered the prosecution\u2019s presentation of the NSU as an isolated group of three persons.<\/p>\n

This shows that the severity shown by the prosecution today is only camouflage for its unwillingness to do the same with regards to actually important Nazi witnesses. The witness today had already stated that he had received the letter and the money, there are no signs that he of all persons had had a personal connection to the NSU or its supporters. By contrast, witnesses from the direct personal and organizational surroundings of the NSU had lied just as brazenly, but had not been attacked by the prosecution, quite to the contrary had even been protected from attacks by victims\u2019 counsel.<\/p>\n

The trial day on Thursday was canceled as the witness scheduled for that day is unable to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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