The Dresden Higher Regional Court (OLG) will not open a trial against a confidante of NSU terrorist Beate Zschäpe for supporting a terrorist organization. In the opinion of the senate, it will not be possible to prove in a main trial that the accused knew about the murders of the "National Socialist Underground" (NSU) at the time of her acts of support, the OLG announced. Despite her close friendship with Zschäpe, there was insufficient evidence for this.
The decision is reportedly not legally binding. The federal prosecution can lodge an appeal within one week.
However, proceedings for aiding and abetting particularly serious extortion were opened at the Zwickau district court, as the Higher Regional Court further announced. The accused had known about the NSU robberies. By assisting in the collection of a mobile home used by the NSU in the last robbery in Eisenach on November 4, 2011, she had accepted to provide assistance in a bank robbery.
