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In 2018 Zschäpe was sentenced to life imprisonment, in August 2021 the judgment was confirmed by the BGH (archive image)
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The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe has rejected a hearing complaint by the right-wing terrorist Beate Zschäpe against the confirmation of the murder verdict by the BGH.
The complaint was unfounded, announced the BGH.
The filing of a complaint to be heard is a prerequisite for a complaint to the Federal Constitutional Court, which Zschäpe also lodged.
The right-wing extremist cell "National Socialist Background" (NSU), to which Zschäpe belonged, murdered ten people and committed two bomb attacks and several robberies.
In 2018, Zschäpe was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Munich Higher Regional Court.
In contrast, the BGH rejected their revision in August of this year.
Zschäpe is now taking action against this BGH decision before the Federal Constitutional Court.
Your constitutional complaint was filed on September 20, a court spokesman confirmed.
SPIEGEL first reported on it.
In the hearing complaint, according to the BGH, Zschäpe mainly asserted that the reason given by the third criminal panel for her NSU complicity differs from that in the judgment of the higher regional court.
The Senate changed its case law on complicity, and Zschäpe should have been given the opportunity to respond to this view, argued her defense.
However, the Senate denied that it had changed its case law.
Zschäpe was also able to present "extensively" in the appeal proceedings on the question of complicity.
The hearing complaint was made at the end of August and discarded at the end of September, but has only now been published.
kim / AFP