{"id":1587,"date":"2018-04-25T23:49:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T21:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2018-04-25T23:49:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T21:49:40","slug":"25-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/2018\/04\/25\/25-april-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"25 April 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Closing statement of counsel Borchert continues<\/h4>\n<p>Today Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s defense counsel Borchert continued his closing statement. Like yesterday, this mostly consisted of subdividing the prosecution\u2019s consideration of evidence into tiny pieces, misinterpreting these in a classical strawman manner and \u201crefuting\u201d them with sophistries.<\/p>\n<p>One example from the beginning of his statement which can serve as an example for the whole thing: contrary to the prosecution, Borchert claimed, the NSU cannot have considered the German state its enemy \u2013 after all, its goal had been to force \u201cforeign people\u201d to leave that state! To answer in Borchert\u2019s own words: \u201cFurther comment on this argument is surely not needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This argumentative failure, many parts of which were closer to a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chewbacca_defense\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chewbacca defense<\/a> than an actual consideration of the evidence taken in court (in Borchert\u2019s absence), was not received well by Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s \u201cold\u201d counsel, above all Wolfgang Sturm, as was clearly visible in their facial expressions and body language.<\/p>\n<p>The trial will continue tomorrow with the closing statement of Borchert\u2019s colleague Grasel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closing statement of counsel Borchert continues Today Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s defense counsel Borchert continued his closing statement. Like yesterday, this mostly consisted of subdividing the prosecution\u2019s consideration of evidence into tiny pieces, misinterpreting these in a classical strawman manner and \u201crefuting\u201d them with sophistries. One example from the beginning of his statement which can serve as an [&hellip;]<\/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-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","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=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}