Trial against alleged NSU supporter in Dresden

A suspected confidante of NSU terrorist Beate Zschäpe will stand trial today (10.00 a.m.) before the Dresden Higher Regional Court (OLG) on charges including supporting a terrorist organization. The federal prosecution accuses Susann E. of having assisted the "National Socialist Underground" (NSU). After the start of the trial, 43 further trial days are scheduled until June next year.

Accused allegedly knew about NSU murders

In February 2024, the federal prosecutor's office 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 picking up 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 at 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. He was acquitted of the charge of aiding and abetting attempted murder.

NSU committed murders throughout Germany

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

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.