receiving a 30 month sentence for violent crimes<\/a>. T\u00f6dter appeared in the outfit of a classical 1990s Nazi skinhead, with shaved head and a \u201cStorm 18\u201d shirt under a bomber jacket.<\/p>\nDuring an earlier incarceration, he had told the police that he could report on a meeting with Uwe Mundlos and Uwe B\u00f6hnhardt in 2006, shortly before the murder of Halit Yozgat in Kassel. Today T\u00f6dter tried to disavow his earlier statements \u2013 and achieved to combine perjury and resufal to testify more brazenly than any witness before him. At first he relied on the privilege against self-incrimination. When presiding judge G\u00f6tzl told him that the privilege did not apply to him, he answered \u201cIn that case, I don\u2019t remember anything.\u201d The presiding judge tried very patiently to ask T\u00f6dter about his earlier statements to the police, but he remained stubborn in his refusal.\u00a0His testimony was interrupted and will be continued tomorrow \u2013 it remains to be seen whether he will face fines or detention for refusal to testify or \u201cjust\u201d a perjury trial.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon, the two expert witnesses reported on the functioning and effects of the Keupstra\u00dfe nail bomb. Their reports showed again that it was a massive stroke of luck that nobody died: bomb expert Dr. M\u00f6lle had calculated that even at distances far beyond 25 meters, the nails had a kinetic energy which would have made fatal injuries very likely in case of hits to the head or torso of persons. As to the splinters of the gas bottle itself, coroner Dr. Peschel calculated that its kinetic energy was somewhere between a bullet from a very large-caliber rifle and that from a machine gun. Even in distances of up to 100 metres, Peschel concluded, serious injuries could have been expected.<\/p>\n
Peschel\u2019s report concluded with a listing of the various injuries actually incurred, a frightening list comprising inter alia cornea injuries, broken bones, burn injuries and life-threatening injuries due to inhalation of gastric acid. In addition, there are the many psychological injuries suffered, on which Dr. Peschel, not being a psychiatrist, did not report in detail. However, he stated quite clearly that anxiety disorders as a part of post-traumatic stress disorder were a typical reaction in victims of this type of crime and that in some cases these disorders become chronic. However, he added, a courtroom is not the place to try detailed diagnoses of individual cases. Typically, the Zsch\u00e4pe defense tried to interrupt and rebuke the expert witness during these statements.<\/p>\n
One thing became crystal clear once more: all those Keupstra\u00dfe residents who have testified as witnesses were present in an area in which there was a serious risk of fatal injuries. Upon being asked by victim\u2019s counsel Alexander Hoffmann about the apartment of Hoffmann\u2019s client, Dr. M\u00f6lle stated that the front-facing rooms of that apartment were also within that zone. This shows once more what Hoffmann had already stated yesterday: the motion by the Zsch\u00e4pe defense to exclude his client from the trial is without any legal merit, it seems to be a mere propaganda device. The large number of private accessory prosecutors simply results from the extreme danger emanating from the bomb, which was designed to kill and maim as many Keupstra\u00dfe residents as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On the dangerousness of the Keupstra\u00dfe nail bomb \u2013 and on the most brazen Nazi witness yet. The first witness today was Bernd T\u00f6dter, leader of neo-Nazi group \u201cStorm 18\u201d from Kassel and just recently released from pre-trial detention after receiving a 30 month sentence for violent crimes. T\u00f6dter appeared in the outfit of a […]<\/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-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}