- Title: German court due to sentence defendant beate Zschaepe in neo-nazi murder trial
- Date: 11th July 2018
- Summary: MUNICH, GERMANY (JULY 11, 2018) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF POLICE VANS DRIVING INTO PARKING BASEMENT OF COURT BUILDING VARIOUS OF POLICEMEN LINED UP IN FRONT OF COURT PEOPLE GATHERING OUTSIDE COURT HOLDING SIGNS CALLING FOR STATE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT NSU WAS NOT JUST A TRIO BUT A NETWORK VARIOUS OF PEOPLE ATTENDING COURT VERDICT IN NSU TRIAL QUEUING OUTSIDE SIGN READING (German): 'JUDICIARY' WIDOW OF NSU-VICTIM SIMSEK WALKING INTO COURT BUILDING PUBLIC DEFENDER, ANJA STURM WALKING INTO COURT BUILDING VARIOUS OF PEOPLE QUEUING SEMIYA SIMSEK, DAUGHTER OF VICTIM, CARRYING CHILD AND WALKING INTO BUILDING PAN ACROSS WAITING PEOPLE HIGHER REGIONAL COURT NOTICE FOR TRIAL AGAINST BEATE ZSCHAEPE
- Embargoed: 25th July 2018 09:08
- Keywords: NSU trial accused Beate Zschaepe neo-Nazi group far-right trial
- Location: MUNICH, GERMANY
- City: MUNICH, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions
- Reuters ID: LVA0018OAXI6F
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- Story Text: Relatives of the victims of neo-Nazi gang NSU arrived at the Munich court on Wednesday (July 11) where a verdict will be handed out in the trial of suspected gang member and main defendant Beate Zschaepe.
Prosecutors say Zschaepe was part of the National Socialist Underground (NSU), whose members killed eight Turks, a Greek and a German policewoman over seven years from 2000.
Zschaepe has denied taking part in the murders with two men, Uwe Boehnhardt and Uwe Mundlos. They killed themselves in 2011 when police discovered the gang by chance. But she has, through her lawyer, said she felt morally guilty for not stopping them.
In her previous testimony in 2015, she denied being a member of the NSU and described feeling horrified and bewildered when Boehnhardt and Mundlos told her about some of the murders.
Last week, she said she did not know how the victims were chosen and that she had denied reality to some extent for a long time. Only once she had turned herself in did she realize the full extent of the crimes, she said.
The prosecution has demanded a sentence of life in prison. Zschaepe's lawyers have urged the court to convict her of the lesser charges of arson and robbery.
The NSU attacks were the most violent by a guerrilla group in Germany since the end of the far-left Red Army Faction's two-decade spree in 1991, in which 34 people are estimated to have been killed. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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