Germany: The process of the century against NSU.
- After long disputes began almost three weeks late to the cell process far right "Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund" (Nazi underground). In one of the largest criminal processes of recent decades, in the dock are Beate Zschape - the neo-Nazi terrorist suspects - and four people suspected of NSU's assistant.
- Since the beginning of the process, Zschapes lawyers rejected the claim for removal of the presiding judge of bias Manfred Getzl. The reason was his order that lawyers should be subject to - before entering the courtroom - for gun control, while the representative of the Federal Attorney General, as well as officers and court staff, no. This was a conscious discrimination and insult to lawyers, said the request to read the outset lawyer Wolfgang Stahl. The court rejected the decision right now for this application.
- About 80 members of the families of the victims are in the process bashkëpaditës and represented by 60 lawyers.
- The main accused, Beate Zschape, was brought into the courtroom without handcuffs. By the start of the trial she talked to her lawyers. Two of the defendants tried to hide his face with the hood of flash files and photographers.
- Since the opening of the proceedings before the court in Munich, was established strict security measures, when about 500 policemen care to ensure a smooth start of the trial, reports DW.
- A range of groups protested the court against neo-Nazi violence and racism. Among them was the Turkish association. "Chance for Justice" and "How to kill so many?" Read the slogans of the demonstrators.
- As observers in the process had been more Turkish MPs.
- 38-year-old Beate Zschape accused of complicity in all works in Zwickau terrorist group - among them the shop owners killing nine Turkish and Greek origin, killing a policewoman, two attacks with explosives and numerous bank robberies. More than 13 years Zschape had lived together with Uwe and Uwe Mundlosin Bohnhardt under false identities. Bohnhardt Mundlos and killed himself in November 2011, in order to escape from police custody.
- The process apparently will be one of the largest in the history of German justice. Before the start of the trial, victims and their relatives demanded "maximum whitening" of German justice. Their lawyers also expressed hope that at the end of the process there will be only one sentence the accused, "but also a clear identification of bashkëpërgjegjësve".
- Coordination Council of Muslims said it has great expectations from the process and the need to clarify any possible involvement of authorities.
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