{"id":1417,"date":"2017-05-29T17:46:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2017-05-29T17:46:37","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T15:46:37","slug":"24-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/2017\/05\/29\/24-may-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"24 May 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last steps before the end of the taking of evidence.<\/h4>\n

Beate Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s mother again refused to testify in court, but gave her consent that her earlier police statement from 2011 be considered by the court. This statement was then introduced by one of the police officers who had interviewed her. It contained above all information on Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s childhood and youth and on the rift between mother and daughter \u2013 one important reason for which, the witness had told the police, had been Beate Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s political ideology.<\/p>\n

Victims\u2019 counsel for the Yozgat family brought a challenge for bias against defense expert Prof. Bauer \u2013 Bauer had topped his embarrassing appearance in court (see our report of\u00a018 May 2017<\/a>) with an email to German daily \u201cDie Welt\u201d: reacting to the critical reports on his testimony, he had sent the newspaper his expert opinion and had complained about a \u201cburning of witches\u201d being conducted against Zsch\u00e4pe. There is no need for further comment, Bauer\u2019s derailment speaks for itself. Defense counsel Heer seemed rather amused by the challenge against the other defense counsels\u2019 expert.<\/p>\n

The Wohlleben defense, meanwhile, brought a motion for evidence tying in to a diagnosis Bauer had made \u201cin passing\u201d on Uwe B\u00f6hnhardt and Uwe Mundlos: Bauer had claimed that both had without a doubt been severely psychopathic perpetrators. Picking up this depoliticization of the NSU\u2019s racist series of murders, the defense moved that a psychiatric expert be heard to prove that the two men had suffered from a psychopathic personality disorder and that this had not been visible for third persons as psychopaths are capable of manipulative behavior to disguise their disorder. This motion will remain without success.<\/p>\n

The federal prosecution responded to the motions for evidence of last week. The head of the prosecution team Dr. Diemer himself responded to the victims\u2019 counsel motion concerning Stefan Lange (see the report of 17 May 2017<\/a>) and used the opportunity to whitewash the German secret services: he claimed that there was no reason to believe that the secret services had ever failed to pass on information to the police \u2013 quite to the contrary, he went on, information provided by these services had significantly furthered the trial in Munich. This statement obviously results from the self-image of the federal prosecution as a political office tasked above all with protecting the state and its agencies. Anyone who has followed the developments concerning the NSU complex in the last few years \u2013 the destruction of case files, the scandalous appearances by contact officers in court, the sheer number of informers in the Nazi scene surrounding the NSU core trio \u2013 can see that his statement his nothing but propaganda.<\/p>\n

The court then considered how to deal with the critique of methodology presented by Prof Faustmann and the response announced by Prof. Sa\u00df. It decided \u2013 contrary to a defense motion \u2013 not to summon Faustmann for next Tuesday, the day on which Sa\u00df will present his response.<\/p>\n

As to what will happen on the other two trial days next week, the presiding judge refused any comment.\u00a0 It seems unlikely that the court will be able to finish the taking of evidence by next week \u2013 inter alia, it will have to deal with a number of motions for evidence and will have to again consider the personal details of the accused. This last aspect will likely include a recent judgment (which is not yet final) of the Local Court in Chemnitz which last week convicted him of criminal assault and coercion for beating and kicking a teenager in Chemnitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last steps before the end of the taking of evidence. Beate Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s mother again refused to testify in court, but gave her consent that her earlier police statement from 2011 be considered by the court. This statement was then introduced by one of the police officers who had interviewed her. It contained above all information […]<\/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-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","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=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}