Trial against alleged NSU supporter begins on November 6

An alleged confidante of NSU terrorist Beate Zschäpe will stand trial before the Dresden Higher Regional Court (OLG) from November 6. The federal prosecution accuses Susann E. of having supported the "National Socialist Underground" (NSU), among other things. A further 43 trial days have been scheduled until June next year.

Accused allegedly knew about NSU murders

In February 2024, the federal prosecutor brought charges against the wife of legally convicted NSU supporter André E. She is accused of having known about the NSU's racially motivated murders since the beginning of 2007 at the latest and of having provided Zschäpe with her health insurance card and personal details from September 2008. She is also alleged to have assisted in the collection of a mobile home used by the NSU in the last robbery in Eisenach on November 4, 2011.

Her husband André E. was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in 2018. The judges of the Munich Higher Regional Court considered it proven that E. had organized several train tickets for the NSU trio between 2009 and 2011, which were issued to him and his wife but showed photos of Zschäpe and Uwe Böhnhardt. However, they acquitted him of charges including aiding and abetting attempted murder.

NSU committed murders throughout Germany

The NSU was a neo-Nazi terror cell consisting of Zschäpe, Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos, which carried out ten murders throughout Germany for years from 2000 onwards without being recognized. Their victims were nine businessmen of Turkish and Greek origin and a German policewoman. Mundlos and Böhnhardt also carried out two bomb attacks in Cologne, injuring dozens of people. The two killed themselves in 2011 to avoid arrest - only then was the NSU uncovered.

Zschäpe was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2018 after a trial lasting a good five years. André E. was one of four other co-defendants in the trial.