On today\u2019s first trial day after the Christmas break, the court had planned, after the rather short testimony of a police officer, to hear the oral expert opinion of psychiatrist Prof. Sa\u00df. However, the Zsch\u00e4pe defense continued its fight against his opinion, on different levels: assigned counsel Stahl, Sturm and Heer brought voluminous motions asking the court to produce audio recordings of the opinion and to guide the expert extensively as to methods and to the facts used as basis for his opinion. Counsel Borchert and Grasel meanwhile read out another statement of Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s, apparently attempting to counter some aspects contained in Sa\u00df\u2019 preliminary written opinion.<\/p>\n
In that statement, Zsch\u00e4pe again tries to assert the truthfulness of her earlier statements and to combat the picture, arising out of the evidence heard in court, of a manipulative, empathy-less person who took part in the NSU crimes. Zsch\u00e4pe now claims that it was only based on briefings by her assigned counsel that she had shown no feelings in court as those would \u201cbe misinterpreted willingly or unwillingly by the public and some victims\u2019 counsel\u201d. She also claimed that she had already learned in her time underground not to show her feelings.<\/p>\n
However, the only times that concrete emotions are even referred to in this eight-page statement is when they concern Zsch\u00e4pe herself \u2013 such as her statement that on the first trial day, she had felt \u201cleft alone\u201d by her defense counsel and therefore \u201cdisoriented\u201d, that turning her back to the press had made her feel more secure. Whenever Zsch\u00e4pe refers to emotions in relation to third persons, she resorts to trite banalities. Referring murder victim Halit Yozgat\u2019s mother and her very emotionale \u201cappeal from woman to woman\u201d (see our report of\u00a02 October 2013<\/a>), Zsch\u00e4pe\u00a0 claims that she was still thinking of that appeal, which she had been unable to answer back then. What exactly Zsch\u00e4pe claims to have felt in that situation is not explained at all \u2013 nor does she bother to explain why she still refuses to answer Ayse Yozgat\u2019s questions to this day.<\/p>\n Thus, Zsch\u00e4pe is now trying to put the blame for her public appearance throughout the trial on her assigned counsel, following the same logic according to which she tried to put the blame for the NSU\u2019s crimes solely on Uwe B\u00f6hnhardt and Uwe Mundlos. Zsch\u00e4pe describes herself only as a victim \u2013 of the Uwes, of her counsel, of the mean victims\u2019 counsel and of the press \u2013 and thus still refuses to take any responsibility for her acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oral expert opinion further delayed. And: Zsch\u00e4pe reacts to the written expert opinion On today\u2019s first trial day after the Christmas break, the court had planned, after the rather short testimony of a police officer, to hear the oral expert opinion of psychiatrist Prof. Sa\u00df. However, the Zsch\u00e4pe defense continued its fight against his opinion, […]<\/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-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","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=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}