Today\u2019s trial day was entirely devoted to introducing the testimony of NSU supporter Max-Florian B. via the police officers who had questioned him \u2013 B himself refused to testify in court.<\/p>\n
Max-Florian B. is an important witness for the prosecution because he was involved in an important part of the NSU\u2019s development after Zsch\u00e4pe, B\u00f6hnhardt and Mundlos had gone underground. The importance to the court can be measured by the fact that presiding judge G\u00f6tzl not only had both officers testify at length on their own, but also read out practically the entire minutes of his earlier questionings and had them confirm their content.<\/p>\n
In the beginning, \u201ethe Three\u201c lived in B.\u2018s apartment and he lived with his girlfriend Mandy Struck, after the end of his relationship to Struck, all four lived in his apartment. But even after they had moved out, and even until 2009\/2010, long after B. had apparently left the Nazi scene, B continued to occasionally meet with them or talk on the phone. In these calls and meetings, \u201cthe Three\u201d casually asked about developments in his life, likely in order to be able to continue his identity \u2013 Mundlos had used a passport in B.\u2019s name. B. also provided them with documents, such as letters from a bank where Mundlos had opened an account using the passport in B.\u2019s name.<\/p>\n
In several meetings with the police, B. has shown quite vividly that Beate Zsch\u00e4pe was a member of the group on an equal footing with the two men, as can be seen with regard to her statements concerning a propaganda crime in 1996 consisting of the hanging of a puppet with the word \u201cJew\u201d on its chest from a highway bridge and the dropping of a mock bomb: Zsch\u00e4pe had stated that she had not been involved in the actual [Durchf\u00fchrung] as she lacked the necessary strength, but that she had been fully involved in the planning of this and other actions. After B.\u2019s statement, it can be seen as established that Zsch\u00e4pe was a full-fledged member of the group \u2013 not least because the first band robbery took place while the Three were still living in Chemnitz, showing that the group took the step towards armed actions in the situation described by B.<\/p>\n
B. had also stated to the police that Thomas Starke, the Fiedler brothers and the group around them had been some of the main supporters in that phase. Starke had already provided the Three with explosives earlier, using his \u201cBlood and Honour\u201d contacts. Interestingly, Starke was an informer of the Berlin criminal police from 2000 to 2005. He will testify next week.<\/p>\n
However, B.\u2018s testimony incriminates not only Zsch\u00e4pe, but also his co-accused Andr\u00e9 Eminger. B. had stated that Eminger had visitied \u201eThe Three\u201c at least three times in his apartment. They had discussed the possibility of his providing an identity document, but had decided against doing so for reasons B. could not relate. Eminger had been a topic of conversation whenever B. had spoken with B\u00f6hnhardt and Mundlos, they had given him information regarding Andr\u00e9 Eminger, his kids, his job and his Tattoo of the words \u201cDie Jew Die\u201d. B had had assumed that Eminger had lived close to the \u201cThree\u201d as he had often visited them. In 2011, Eminger had called B. and had known information regarding B. which he could only have gotten from \u201cthe Three\u201d.<\/p>\n
All in all, Max-Florian B.\u2018s statements leave the obvious impression that Eminger had been closely connected to \u201cthe Three\u201d after they had gone underground and had supported them early on.<\/p>\n
Another important aspect of B\u2019s testimony concerned the end of the stay of B\u00f6hnhardt, Mundlos and Zsch\u00e4pe in Chemnitz. Apparently there had been a number of discussions concerning the fact that their presence in Chemnitz was well-known in the \u201cscene\u201d and they thus had to move. Given the number of informers in the scene at that time, this cannot have escaped the notice of the domestic secret service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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