First witness today was a police officer who had done research concerning a passport which Holger Gerlach had applied for in 2011 in order to give it to Uwe B\u00f6hnhardt. His research revealed that Gerlach had picked up the passport in person on 16 June 2011. Next week, another officer will report on investigations on what happened next, namely Zsch\u00e4pe traveling to Hannover herself to pick it up \u2013 another clear piece of evidence that she was a full member of the NSU on one level with B\u00f6hnhardt and Mundlos.<\/p>\n
Up next was an office worker from the service where the trio had rented a caravan for the bank robbery in Eisenach on 4 November 2011. The car had been picked up by B\u00f6hnhardt and a woman. The latter was accompanied by a girl who called her \u201cmom\u201d and drove away in a car afterwards \u2013 clear signs that this was not Beate Zsch\u00e4pe. The criminal police showed her several pictures of girls, inter alia the daughters of Ralf Wohlleben, Maik Eminger and Mandy Struck, but the witness claimed not to be able to identify any of them. In any event, her testimony once again disproves the thesis that the NSU was a small, isolated cell \u2013 as shown by the fact that another \u201ccomrade\u201d not only took part in picking up the rented car for one of the group\u2019s crimes, but also thought nothing of taking her daughter with her.<\/p>\n
The one and only question asked by Zsch\u00e4pe\u2019s new defense counsel Grasel was who had paid the rent for the car \u2013 the witness reported that this had been the man. The defense tried to insinuate that, contrary to the witnesses so far, Zsch\u00e4pe had not manage the trio\u2019s money \u2013 which of course does not hold water if she was simply not present when the money was paid. He confirmed that he had talked to Dienelt on the phone, claiming that he had simply heard on the news that a house in Zwickau had burned and that a certain \u201cMatthias D.\u201d had rented a house there. However, it is far from certain whether the news had already named a \u201cMatthias D.\u201d at that point in time. Schenke disavowed any knowledge concerning Zsch\u00e4pe, Mundlos, B\u00f6hnhardt and the NSU \u2013 but was unable to report why he had thought of Dienelt in response to the news reports, given that Dienelt had, according to him, not had any connections to Zwickau. He clang to his ludicrous story even after he had presented with the statement of several former \u201cWBE\u201d members that Dienelt had talked about visited a \u201cshared flat\u201d in Zwickau \u2013 another piece of evidence, by the way, for the breadth of the network of NSU supporters. Another day, another lying Nazi witness \u2013 this one so brazen that even the federal prosecution threatens consequences. First witness today was a police officer who had done research concerning a passport which Holger Gerlach had applied for in 2011 in order to give it to Uwe B\u00f6hnhardt. His research revealed that Gerlach had picked […]<\/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-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsu-nebenklage.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe entire afternoon was devoted to another lying Nazi witness. Marcel Schenke is a former member of the \u201cWhite Brotherhood in the Iron Mountains\u201d (WBE) led by accused Eminger and his brother. He was and still is friends with Matthias Dienelt who had rented apartments for the NSU over a period of seven years in Zwickau (see the report of 9 July 2014<\/a>), likely brokered by Andr\u00e9 Eminger. He was also well acquainted with Mandy Struck, who according to the evidence had provided support with apartments and personal papers. He had allowed Eminger to use his address to receive letters concerning an apartment Eminger had rented for B\u00f6hnhardt, Mundlos and Zsch\u00e4pe.<\/p>\n
\nThe witness was so brazen in presenting feigned memory gaps that finally \u2013 a first in this trial \u2013 federal prosecutor Weingarten threatened him with a perjury investigation. It became clear once more that those surrounding the NSU are sticking together until this day and are still trying to keep any facts from being cleared up. It was thus no big surprise when the witness related when he had last seen accused Eminger in 2014: at a racist demonstration against housing for refugees in Schneeberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"