Munich, 20 March 2014<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not the court of last judgment!\u201d
\nFederal prosecution again prevents victims\u2019 counsel from questioning a Nazi witness<\/p>\n
During yesterday\u2019s questioning of witness Carsten R., who had rented a flat for Mundlos, B\u00f6hnhardt and Zsch\u00e4pe after they had gone underground, and who was obviously lying to the court, the federal prosecution torpedoed critical questioning by victims\u2019 counsel.<\/p>\n
Questioned by victim\u2019s counsel whether he had not cared at all why \u201cthe Three\u201d had gone underground in 1998, the witness stated that he had not cared at all whether they had stolen chocolate bars or killed someone. He was then asked about his thoughts when he found out via the media in 2011 that \u201cthe Three\u201d had in fact committed several murders. At this crucial point, the federal prosecution interrupted questioning by the victims\u2019 counsel, in violation of the rules of criminal procedure, and stated that \u201eWe are not the court of last judgment, it is not the duty of a witness to justify himself for his attitudes, but rather to testify on his factual experiences.\u201c
\nThe prosecution thus kept the witness from answering the question. They have shown that they are trying to prevent a critical examination of his truthfulness and of his motivation to make false statements in court. A worthwhile examination of the witness by victims\u2019 counsel was thus factually prevented.<\/p>\n
The federal prosecution has shown similar behavior several times previously when victims\u2019 counsel questioned witnesses who were part of the right wing scene. The undersigned counsel cannot help but gain the impression that the federal prosecution is actively opposing an actual elucidation of the structures which have led to the NSU coming into being and continuing to exist and which have supported the NSU in the crimes attributed to it. Now that several witnesses from the Nazi scene have been questioned, the news has apparently spread among them that they can lie or feign memory gaps with impunity and even be supported by the federal prosecution in doing so.<\/p>\n
Victims\u2019 counsel, Attorneys at Law
\nAlkan, Basay, von der Behrens, Bogazkaya, Clemm, Daimag\u00fcler, Dr. Elberling, Hoffmann, Ilius, Kaniuka, Kara, Kienzle, Kolloge, Kuhn, Lex, Lunnebach, Narin, Parlayan, Pinar, Reinecke, Scharmer, Sariyar, Sfatkidis, Sidiropoulos, Stolle, Top, \u00dcnl\u00fccay, Wierig<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Press Release of several victims\u2019 counsel in the NSU trial. Munich, 20 March 2014 \u201cWe are not the court of last judgment!\u201d Federal prosecution again prevents victims\u2019 counsel from questioning a Nazi witness During yesterday\u2019s questioning of witness Carsten R., who had rented a flat for Mundlos, B\u00f6hnhardt and Zsch\u00e4pe after they had gone underground, […]<\/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-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}