Victims\u2019 counsel have moved several time that the files of the investigation against unknown persons be made part of the case file. The files of these proceedings, which are directed against potential further NSU supporters, are always good for a surprise. The federal prosecutor\u2019s office files all documents which it does not want the parties in Munich to know in this file and where parties ask for access to that file, they claim that the contents of that file are not relevant for the Munich trial or that granting access would endanger the investigation. In the past, this file turned out to contain such gems as the minutes of police interviews with former informer Michael See and Hammerskin Thomas Gerlach, who testified last week.<\/p>\n
And this case file again became relevant today. Smack in the middle of the testimony of the first witness \u2013 the former girlfriend of Hans-Ulrich M\u00fcller, who according to the indictment had brought the murder weapon Ceska to Germany \u2013 prosecutor Diemer asked presiding judge G\u00f6tzl whether he was not in possession of the minutes of that woman\u2019s 18 June 2004 interview. He was not \u2013 hardly surprising as those minutes had only been sent from the federal prosecution\u2019s headquarter in Karlsruhe to the prosecutors in Munich the same morning. Naturally the questioning of the witness had to be interrupted in order to grant the parties an opportunity to read those minutes. Not only does this lead to a further delay of the trial \u2013 something victims\u2019 counsel are often claimed to be responsible for when they ask \u201ctoo many\u201d questions. More importantly, the questions remains what other important testimony and other investigations the prosecution has parked by in the case file against unknown persons in order to keep it secret and bring it to light only when needed for its plans.<\/p>\n
The same question became relevant in the afternoon. A police detective from the land of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg related her investigations \u2013 based on the list of names found next to the bombs in the garage searched in 1998, she and her colleagues had investigated what contacts \u201cthe Three\u201d had to Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg and had found several witnesses who had often been in contact with them. Among others, witness statements had shown \u201cthe Three\u201d to have been in Ludwigsburg in 1999 and 2001 \u2013 witness statements which are not known to the parties. A secret service informer had also stated that Mundlos had talked to him about bank robberies \u2013 testimony which is not known to the parties and apparently buried in the case file against unknown persons because the federal prosecution deems it \u201cnot relevant\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The federal prosecution conjures up witness testimony from thin air \u2013 questioning of a witness had to be interrupted Victims\u2019 counsel have moved several time that the files of the investigation against unknown persons be made part of the case file. The files of these proceedings, which are directed against potential further NSU supporters, are […]<\/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-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}