Beate Zschäpe and three co-defendants had not accepted their sentences from the NSU trials.
The BGH dealt extensively with the revisions - and has now made decisions.
Karlsruhe - Beate Zschäpe has been convicted as an accomplice of the neo-Nazi terror cell "National Socialist Underground" (NSU). The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) rejected their appeal with a written decision and only deleted a single penalty, as the Karlsruhe court announced on Thursday. "The total lifelong imprisonment and the determined severity of guilt remained unaffected by this." The judgments against NSU supporters Ralf Wohlleben and Holger G. are also final.
Zschäpe had lived underground with her friends Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt for almost 14 years.
During this time, the men murdered eight small business owners of Turkish origin and one of Greek origin, as well as a policewoman.
In 2011 they committed suicide to avoid arrest.
Zschäpe set fire to the shared apartment, sent a confessional video and turned himself in.
NSU trial: judgment against Zschäpe now final - BGH has spoken
The mammoth trial of the murders and attacks by the neo-Nazi terrorist cell NSU came to an end on July 11, 2018 after more than five years and over 400 days of negotiations.
The Higher Regional Court (OLG) Munich sentenced Zschäpe, the only survivor of the trio, as an accomplice to life imprisonment - even if there is no evidence that she herself was at one of the crime scenes.
In addition, the judges determined the particular gravity of the guilt.
Ralf Wohlleben was sentenced to ten years imprisonment for aiding and abetting murder, Holger G. was sentenced to three years imprisonment for supporting a terrorist organization.
The written judgment has been available since the end of April 2020, it is 3,025 pages long.
The BGH examines judgments exclusively for legal errors. So he doesn't hear any more witnesses. If the judgment stands up to review, it becomes final. If the revisions are successful, the judges overturn it in whole or in part. There is a main hearing in only about five percent of all revisions. Under certain conditions, the judges can also decide in writing by resolution - namely if they consider an appeal to be inadmissible or obviously unfounded. The same applies if the Senate unanimously considers the appeal in favor of a defendant to be well founded. (
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