Now the neo-Nazi terrorist wants help from the Basic Law!
Beate Zschäpe (46) continues to take action against her life imprisonment. According to a report by the “Mirrors” their lawyers have lodged a complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court.
The only survivor of the terror trio from the National Socialist Underground (NSU) wants to have her life imprisonment reviewed by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH).
Background: The BGH had Zschäpe’s appeal against her conviction in August rejected in the last instance. And THAT she wants to challenge now.
Zschäpe sees her basic rights violated because the BGH decision was made without a main hearing, her defense lawyer Mathias Grasel (37) told “Spiegel”.
The right-wing extremist’s team of lawyers primarily criticized the fact that Zschäpe was convicted of complicity in the NSU murders, although the Munich Higher Regional Court believes that she was not at the crime scenes herself.
Accordingly, it was Uwe Mundlos († 38) and Uwe Böhnhardt († 34) who murdered, planted bombs and carried out robberies. Zschäpe has been involved in the planning of every crime as it currently stands.
In addition, she is said to have stood by during the crimes of the two neo-Nazi terrorists in order to destroy evidence in the event that the men were arrested and to send the NSU confessional video. Just as she did in November 2011 when Mundlos and Böhnhardt committed suicide.
Zschäpe’s defense lawyers argue that this is not enough for a conviction as an accomplice.
It is now up to the Constitutional Court to decide whether it will allow the complaint. Only if it were then judged in the sense of Zschäpe would the case go to the Federal Court of Justice again.