Enrico Theile was questioned again today \u2013 according to the investigation, he had been involved in the provision on the Ceska pistol used for the NSU murders to the Nazi shop \u201cMadleys\u201d in Jena. Last time Theile was in Munich, there had been discussions on whether or not Theile could refuse to testify. Today Theile, like many witnesses before, decided to testify \u2013 and to claim not to remember anything.<\/p>\n
Theile denied all connection to the weapons deal. He stated that J\u00fcrgen L\u00e4nger, who according to investigations was also involved in the gun deal, was a pal whom he knew from the neighborhood. Also well known to him was Hans Ulrich M\u00fcller, who was involved in the weapons deal on the Swiss side. Theile had inter alia visited M\u00fcller in Switzerland. Theile stated that he had discussed the \u201cwanted\u201d poster concerning the \u201cKebap killings\u201d with M\u00fcller, who had also told him that his house had been searched in that connection. He claimed not to remember anything more of that discussion, and he remained steadfast in that claim even after presiding judge G\u00f6tzl showed quite clearly that he did not believe him, even referring to an earlier perjury conviction of Theile. Theile similarly claimed not to remember discussions with L\u00e4nger or discussions with M\u00fcller concerning L\u00e4nger.<\/p>\n
Theile thus joins the ranks of the \u201cforgetful\u201d witnesses from the Nazi scene and its surroundings who lie more or less believably, claiming not to remember anything even where this is obvious nonsense. To give one example, Theile claimed that he had never had anything to do with guns and neither had M\u00fcller \u2013 this despite the fact that he was subject of several investigations for armed crimes, that cartridge casings were found with him in 1997 and a \u201cpen gun\u201d in 2004, and despite the fact that he knew of M\u00fcller\u2019s arrest in an investigations for weapons crimes.
\nIn 2012, Theile was apparently afraid that he would be arrested in connection with the NSU, also admitted as much in a statement to the police \u2013 today, he again claimed not to remember this at all.<\/p>\n
Presiding judge G\u00f6tzl, obviously irritated by Theile\u2019s obstinacy, interrupted his questioning at 4 pm, to be continued at a later date. What is clear is that the witness, if he does not change his testimony, will face an investigation for perjury \u2013 but probably only after the end of the trial in Munich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lies and Trivialization, Part VII \u2013 Enrico Theile Enrico Theile was questioned again today \u2013 according to the investigation, he had been involved in the provision on the Ceska pistol used for the NSU murders to the Nazi shop \u201cMadleys\u201d in Jena. Last time Theile was in Munich, there had been discussions on whether or […]<\/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-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","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=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}