Bavarian U-Committee on the NSU: Doubts of credibility by André E.

Bavarian U-Committee on the NSU: Doubts of credibility by André E.

U-Committee: Former NSU supporter says from

Stand: 19.06.2023 11:29 pm

The convicted NSU supporter André E. testified in an investigation committee before the Bavarian state parliament. He reported that he only spoke to the NSU terrorists about everyday topics and had already left the scene.

André E. appeared in front of the Bavarian MPs in a green-yellow checkered shirt, wide jeans and short hair. His striking tattoos on hands and neck immediately caught the eye. During the almost five-hour interrogation, he answered questions about his exit from the right-wing extremist scene and his relationship with the NSU terrorists Uwe Böhnhardt, Uwe Mundlos and Beate Zschäpe.

Already in 2018, André E. from the Munich Higher Regional Court was sentenced to a prison sentence of two years and six months for supporting a terrorist association. Beate Zschäpe, the main accused in the NSU process, received a lifelong imprisonment.

André E. said that since 2019 he had had his criminal Nazi tattoos removed, including a tattoo on his stomach with the inscription "The, Jew, the" ("die, Jew, Stirb")). This tattoo is said to be a symbol for its exit from the right -wing extremist scene. E. stated that they are now apolitical and to evaluate the character of the people regardless of their origin.

The Bavarian Investigation Committee wanted to learn more about E.'s connections to Bavaria and in particular to Nuremberg, where the NSU had killed three people. It is believed that the terrorist group had local supporters who spied out potential victims.

The members of the state parliament also hoped for information about E.'s relationship with Böhnhardt, Mundlos and Zschäpe. The three terrorists lived underground undetected for twelve years, supported by André E. They committed explosives attacks, robberies and murdered a total of ten people, nine of whom had a Turkish or Greek migration background.

e. During the interrogation, said that he had no close contact with the NSU trio and only spoke about unimportant things at her occasional meeting. The chairman of the Munich NSU investigation committee, Toni Schuberl from the Greens, described the statements as unbelievable. It is unlikely that racist murderers like E. would only have talked about apolitical topics.

The question of why E. supposedly never wanted to experience the reason for Böhnhardt and Mundlos' bank robberies. He stated that he was too young and overwhelmed and had nothing to do with it. Schuberl criticized E. for not dealing with the consequences of his actions. In 2007 E. von Beate Zschäpe found out about bank robberies. If he had passed this knowledge on to the police, the murder of the NSU on the policewoman Michèle Kiesewetter in Heilbronn could possibly be prevented in the same year. E. then replied that he was not aware of how serious the situation was.

André E. often stated during the interrogation not to be able to remember certain details. Among other things, he attributed this to brain hemorrhage that he had suffered in 2000 after a fight.

The chairman of the committee, Schuberl, was still partially satisfied because E. had managed to make it to be.

e. explained that he had already stabbed the "die, Jew, Stirb" tattoo as a 16-year-old. It was a line from a song of an English skinhead band. At this point he did not understand good English and did not think about the meaning. As a sign of his will to exit, he described the tattoo as inhumane and explained that he still had a political attitude at that time.