Today the court first introduced into evidence some documents: on the one hand, based on a motion by the Wohlleben defense, it read out a Nazi party press release penned by Wohlleben containing ethnopluralist rhetoric. On the other hand, and more relevant for the judgment, the court considered a list of \u201cclips\u201d to be extracted from the \u201cPink Panther\u201d TV series and thorough instructions for doing so. Everything points to these \u201cclips\u201d being the one Zsch\u00e4pe offered to cut in a bet and therefore to Zsch\u00e4pe being involved in the production of the video with which the NSU claimed responsibility for its crimes.<\/p>\n
The court then rejected further motions for evidence \u2013 in fact, all such motions which had not yet been decided. Some of the decisions showed quite clearly that the court is simply trying to finish this trial, never mind the reasoning: inter alia, the court refused to ask the secret service in Hamburg for information on a Nazi event organized by neo-Nazi and attorney J\u00fcrgen Rieger in Hetendorf in 1997 \u2013 an event which, according to witness testimony, Zsch\u00e4pe had visited without Mundlos or B\u00f6hnhardt. The court claimed that this event was irrelevant for its judgment \u2013 mere weeks after it had tried to find out more about the event from a former officer of the secret service in Thuringia (see the report of 16 February 2017<\/a>).<\/p>\n The court also rejected \u2013 with more respectable reasoning \u2013 the last remaining motions for evidence brought by the Wohlleben defense. It than fixed a time limit of one week for any further motions for evidence. This very strict time limit came as something of a surprise, particularly given the way the court has conducted the trial in the last few months, which can hardly be described as particularly speedy.<\/p>\n The defense teams asked for a three hour break for internal consultations, which resulted in the statement that they need further time for consultations \u2013 the trial will continue tomorrow at 1 pm, likely with a challenge for alleged bias brought by the Wohlleben defense.<\/p>\n Today, several attorneys representing victims of the nail bomb attack in the Keupstra\u00dfe in Cologne brought a motion for evidence concerning the \u201cattack after the attack\u201d, i.e. the years of investigations directed against the victims and accompanied by accusations leveled against them in the press \u2013 all this despite a modus operandi clearly pointing towards a racist motivation of this attack. The motion ends with the statement that \u201cThis \u201cattack after the attack\u201d was the work not of the NSU, but solely of the state.\u201d It can be downloaded (in the German language) here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The court ups the pressure to finish the trial. And: motion for evidence on the \u201cattack after the attack\u201d in the Keupstra\u00dfe in Cologne. Today the court first introduced into evidence some documents: on the one hand, based on a motion by the Wohlleben defense, it read out a Nazi party press release penned by […]<\/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-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","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=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}