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Defendant Susanne G. in court: gasoline hand bomb in the car
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She remembers one thing very well.
"The wine bottles with the Hitler label - they stuck in my head," said the policewoman in court.
"I still remember that the bottles were lined up." The policewoman was there when Susanne G.'s house near Nuremberg was searched in October 2014.
"I was amazed at the time that something like this existed."
Since April, Susanne G. has had to answer to the State Security Senate of the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Munich.
The federal prosecutor's office accuses the 55-year-old alternative practitioner of threatening two politicians, a Muslim community and a refugee aid association and preparing an attack between December 2019 and March 2020.
The charges include the threat and preparation of a serious act of violence that endangers the state.
In September
2020
Susanne G. was arrested.
In her car, the investigators found utensils from which a so-called gasoline hand bomb could be tinkered.
The instructions for building bombs were in the book "Die Autobombe", which Susanne G. bought from "Amazon" in May 2020 according to the indictment.
Posing with rifle and pistol
The search back in 2014 was about something else. During an investigation in the rocker milieu, the police found a photo of Susanne G. on a suspect's cell phone. In the picture Susanne G. posed with an assault rifle and a pistol. This is what an investigator described in court on Friday. The gang's clubhouse and Susanne G's apartment were searched.
The detective chief inspector is not aware of any right-wing activities of the rocker gang, but certainly of connections between the accused and the right-wing scene. Susanne G. was a member of the neo-Nazi party III. Path. "She often went to demonstrations for this party and worked as a steward," says the witness. The court is showing photos that a freelance journalist provided to the police. They show the accused in the years 2016 to 2020 when the III. Way in various cities in Bavaria, Thuringia and Saxony
According to the authorities' knowledge, G. is said to have also participated in a shooting training session in the Czech Republic with the party chairman, Klaus Armstroff.
However, the police officer did not conduct his own investigations into the activities of the accused.
Among other things, he relies on information from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
A financial investigator from the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office also reports that from May 2015 to March 2020, Susanne G. will pay a membership fee to the III.
Paid away, initially ten, later 25 euros.
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The LKA man looked in her accounts for clues as to whether Susanne G. might want to end her bourgeois life "with a hard cut", "in order to lead an underground life". He did not find his hypothesis confirmed in her account transactions. The payment to the party alone ended in March 2020, all other payments to insurance companies, including a gym, continued. He encountered other notable account movements, however. Several members of the III. Weges transferred money to Susanne G. She also supported other people from the right-wing scene financially. Among them is a man from the environment of the terrorist group "National Socialist Underground" (NSU). According to the investigation, Susanne G. transferred 100 euros in 2017 to André E. As "prisoner aid," as the LKA man says.
The Munich Higher Regional Court sentenced André E. in July 2018 for supporting the NSU.
In September 2017 he came into custody after the federal prosecutor's office in the NSU trial demanded twelve years imprisonment for E. among other things for aiding and abetting attempted murder.
Three quarters of a year later the Senate sentenced him to just two and a half years in prison.
The judges did not see as proven that he wanted to help the NSU terrorists with their assassinations.
The Senate overturned the arrest warrant in its 2018 ruling.
André E. was released - and Susanne G. picked him up from prison.
This is what the chief detective said in court on Friday.
Letters to Ralf Wohlleben
Letters to André E. and to another helper of the NSU were also found at Susanne G.'s: Ralf Wohlleben.
Wohlleben was convicted of aiding and abetting murder on nine counts.
He is said to have helped the NSU terrorists to get the gun with which Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos shot nine people of Turkish and Greek origin.
Susanne G. had a permanent visitor's permit to visit Wohlleben and André E. in prison.
According to the investigators, she remained in contact with the extremists after they were released from prison.
Susanne G. is defended by lawyer Nicole Schneiders and lawyer Wolfram Nahrath.
Both are also the defenders of well-being.
Next Thursday, officials from the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution will testify to the connections between the defendants and Ralf Wohlleben and André E. Next Friday the chairman of the III. Wegs, Klaus Armstroff
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summoned as a witness.