Victims\u2019 counsel today brought important motions for evidence concerning the possible involvement of the Nazi scene from Dortmund inter alia in the murder of Mehmet Kuba\u015fik. At the time of the NSU\u2019s murders, a well-organized militant Nazi scene was active in Dortmund. Surrounding the band Oidoxie, there was an organized group called Streetfighting Crew\u201c, which again was connected to a \u201cCombat 18\u201d group which, based on the \u201cBlood and Honour\u201d, aimed to start \u201carmed struggle.\u201d These groups were part of the nation-wide and international \u201cBlood and Honour\u201d network and therefore had the necessary connections to get their hands on guns, e.g. via Belgium.<\/p>\n
One witness which is to be summoned is Sebastian Seemann, neo-Nazi and former informer of the domestic secret service. He was already questioned on 13 December 2011 and made statements concerning the build-up of the \u201cCombat 18\u201d cell in Dortmund by the singer of \u201cOidoxie\u201d. At that time \u2013 the public was not yet discussing the \u201cTurner diaries\u201d \u2013 Seemann had stated that \u201cthe series of murders of Turkish and one Greek small business owners\u201d was consistent with the description of attacks in the \u201cTurner diaries.\u201d He also made concrete statements concerning the possible source of the murder weapons, namely the modified Bruni which was used in several of the NSU murders and the TT33 used in the Heilbronn killing, and asked that he be given pictures of the guns in order to be able to give a more detailed statement.<\/p>\n
Together with his good friend Michael Berger, who shot and killed three policemen in Dortmund on 16 June 2000, Seemann had taken part in gun trainings. Witness Robin Schmiemann, who in the meantime was in contact with Zsch\u00e4pe via latters, stated that Seemann had incited him to commit an armed robbery on 2 February 2007 and provided him with a gun. Schmiemann used that gun to shoot at a Tunisian customer of the store he robbed.<\/p>\n
One further aim of the motions is to find out to what extent Seemann was already in contact with the accused and\/or the NSU in 1997. The build-up of a \u201cCombat 18\u201d cell in Dortmund in 2006, which had contacts to buy weapons, is one piece of evidence for contacts between the NSU and the militant Nazi cells in Dortmund which provided information on possible victims of attacks to the NSU. Until today, there is no other explanation for how the NSU knew about the Dortmund victim, no documents which could them staking out the environs have not been found.<\/p>\n
Another witness to be called is the singer and front man of Nazi band \u201cOidoxie\u201d, formed in 1995 in Dortmund. \u201cOidoxie\u201d was part of the \u201eBlood and Honour\u201c and\u201cCombat 18\u201c networks, i.e. of that organization which according to the evidence so far supported \u201cthe Three\u201d after their going underground in Saxonia. It is likely that the network was at least part of the network supporting the killers in carrying out their murders, at least with respect to that in Dortmund.<\/p>\n
It will remain to be seen whether the court will grant these motions as well as further motions aimed at making files of investigations against these persons part of the Munich case file. If the court does consider this evidence, this would be the final death knell for the prosecution\u2019s claim that the NSU had been an isolated group consisting of three persons and a few supporters. The court would \u2013 even more clearly than it has already done \u2013 position itself against the federal prosecutor\u2019s office. On the other hand, the relevance of this evidence is more than clear and the court has already shown itself interested in the NSU\u2019s connections to militant Nazi organizations such as \u201cBlood and Honour\u201d.<\/p>\n
Today, the court heard a police officer from Dortmund who had noted a phone call to the police concerning the murder in Dortmund. He did not remember anything, but was certain that he had written everything down exactly as it had happened.<\/p>\n
The court also continued the questioning of former \u201eThuringia Home Guard\u201c member and informer of the Thuringian secret service Andreas Rachhausen (see the blog post of 23 July 2014). His questioning did not lead to anything substantial. According to the leader of the political police in his home town of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Rachhausen was \u201cone of the most dangerous right extremists of the time\u201d. In his testimony, he tried to downplay his activities. Rachhausen had evaded arrest over a longer period of time by fleeing to Belgium, the United States and finally to Denmark, where he found refuge with Holocaust denier Thies Christopherson and helped Christopherson with sending out newspapers. In other words, the Nazi scene from Thuringia already had a network of contacts in Germany and several other states and was experienced in fleeing from the police by \u201cgoing underground\u201d \u2013 experience which \u201cthe Three\u201d could benefit from via the \u201cThuringia Home Guard\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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