The first two witnesses today were a police officer and a judge from Zwickau who had interviewed the old lady who only by chance was rescued from the burning house in the Fr\u00fchlingsstra\u00dfe.<\/p>\n
The Zsch\u00e4pe defense made every effort to try to present the interview conducted by the judge in a bad light \u2013 despite the fact that that interview only showed the old lady to be incompetent to testify. They also tried to get the police officer to confirm that Zsch\u00e4pe had rung the old lady\u2019s doorbell before fleeing the scene. Legally speaking, however, this would only confirm Zsch\u00e4pe knowledge that the old lady was at home and that Zsch\u00e4pe thus acted in the knowledge that her neighbor could die in the fire. In any event, ringing the doorbell would not be enough to establish \u201cabandonment of an attempt\u201d and free Zsch\u00e4pe from criminal responsibility.
\nThe testimony of the next witness, Tino Brandt, will continue tomorrow, as planned. We will report on the entirety of his testimony then. Two interesting statements by Brandt, long-time informer for the domestic secret service in Thuringia, are worth reporting already since they show how that service works when it deals with Nazis.<\/p>\n
Asked about his \u201ctruthfulness as a source\u201d, Brandt stated that he never made any reports dealing with crimes by members of the Nazi scene. The secret service had simply not been interested in clearing up \u201cbar fights\u201d and had not asked about criminal acts.
\nBrandt also reported that in the early 1990s, he had reported to a \u201cleading comrade\u201d in the militant neo-Nazi scene, Kai Dalek who is now known to have been an informer for the Bavarian domestic secret service. Brandt had, inter alia, told Dalek about the interest of the Thuringia service in recruiting him as an informer. Dalek was a member of the German-wide network \u201eGesinnungsgemeinschaft der neuen Front\u201c (GdnF, \u201eCommunity of Conviction for the New Front\u201c), led by Christian Worch from Hamburg, and within that community was responsible for \u201eleading\u201d the scene in Thuringia.<\/p>\n
Over more than a decade the secret service in Germany has claimed that there existed no organization of the militant Nazi scene coordinating the activity of that scene in the background. Antifascist groups had pointed out time and again the importance of the GdnF. Brandt\u2019s testimony today again showed that they were right to do so \u2013 even groups like \u201cBlood & Honour\u201d were influenced and steered by this network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Informer Tino Brandt: the secret service was not interested in Nazi crimes. The first two witnesses today were a police officer and a judge from Zwickau who had interviewed the old lady who only by chance was rescued from the burning house in the Fr\u00fchlingsstra\u00dfe. The Zsch\u00e4pe defense made every effort to try to present […]<\/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-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}