{"id":522,"date":"2014-03-26T19:15:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T18:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/?p=522"},"modified":"2014-03-27T09:46:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T08:46:02","slug":"26-march-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/2014\/03\/26\/26-march-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"26 March 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lies and Trivialization, Part 5 \u2013 Juliane Walther<\/span><\/h4>\n

Today\u2019s witness was Juliane Walther, Ralf Wohllebens\u2019s girlfriend at the time when B\u00f6hnhardt, Mundlos and Zsch\u00e4pe went underground. After the police had found their bomb workshop, B\u00f6hnhardt and another \u201ccomrade\u201d came to Walther\u2019s vocational school, drove with her to Erfurt to warn Wohlleben, then back to Jena where she went into Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s apartment to fetch some clothes for Zsch\u00e4pe. She also tried to fetch clothes for Mundlos from his parents\u2019 apartment, but she was met there by the police, who were just beginning to search the apartment and who used her as a witness to that search.<\/p>\n

Her questioning was even more tedious than that of most witnesses from the right-wing scene. The witness claimed not to remember much at all. Presiding judge G\u00f6tzl made more than clear to her that he did not buy her explanations \u2013 all the more because Walther had made a quite extensive statement to the police in 2011. The Zsch\u00e4pe and Wohlleben defences tried several times to interrupt the questioning with senseless objections when the witness was under pressure by questions from court and victims\u2019 counsel.<\/p>\n

Walther remained steadfast in her claims to remember anything and tried to position herself as victim of those questioning her, who she claimed tried to confuse her, and of the press. Especially with regard to questions by victims\u2019 counsel, she apparently felt that it was her position to decide whether questions had to be answered or not, which led to her being admonished by the presiding judge.<\/p>\n

Asked about the ideological background of \u201cthe Three\u201d, Wohlleben and Kapke, she also answered evasively, stating that they had been \u201ca touch right wing\u201d. She claims not to have seen anything remarkable in Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s apartment, which according to her had been \u201ctotally normal\u201d \u2013 it is known from other witness statements that there had been a Swastika flag on the living room wall.<\/p>\n

The witness did relate that she had played the \u201cPogromly\u201d- Spiel with B\u00f6hnhardt, Mundlos, Zsch\u00e4pe, Holger Gerlach and Wohlleben. As in the rest of her statement, the witness did not distance herself from the disgusting anti-Semitic contents of that game. It seems that she is not currently engaged in active Nazi politics, and she describes herself as a \u201cfollower\u201d \u2013 but she is also not willing to accept any responsibility on her part or that of her former friends for the NSU murders.<\/p>\n

From the point of view of victims\u2019 counsel, it is to be welcomed that the court has stopped accepting the \u201cmemory gaps\u201d claimed by witnesses from the right wing scene.<\/p>\n

Walther\u2019s testimony will be concluded tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lies and Trivialization, Part 5 \u2013 Juliane Walther Today\u2019s witness was Juliane Walther, Ralf Wohllebens\u2019s girlfriend at the time when B\u00f6hnhardt, Mundlos and Zsch\u00e4pe went underground. After the police had found their bomb workshop, B\u00f6hnhardt and another \u201ccomrade\u201d came to Walther\u2019s vocational school, drove with her to Erfurt to warn Wohlleben, then back to Jena […]<\/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-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","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=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}