Almost six years after the end of the NSU trial, another trial against a possible supporter of the terrorist group is now imminent. According to information from the Federal Prosecutor General South German newspaper Charges brought against Susann E. She is accused of supporting a terrorist organization and aiding and abetting aggravated blackmail with weapons. If the charges are admitted, the trial against E. will probably take place before the Dresden Higher Regional Court.
Susann E. is the wife of André E. He was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in 2018 as a supporter of the terrorist trio that called itself the “National Socialist Underground” (NSU). He was the closest friend of the trio who killed ten people, carried out three bombings and committed 15 robberies. The trio, which consisted of Beate Zschäpe, Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos, went into hiding in 1998; The series of murders began in September 2000.
Susann E. knew at the beginning of 2007 at the latest “that the members of the NSU were living underground under false identities and had already committed racially motivated murders and a few bank robberies at that time,” according to the findings of the Federal Prosecutor General, who has now filed a complaint Press release published for the prosecution. Susann E. gave Zschäpe her health insurance card several times so that she could go to the doctor – or provided her personal details in order to get Zschäpe a rail card. She also drove Zschäpe and Böhnhardt to an appointment at the end of October 2011 to rent a mobile home. The NSU used this in his last robbery in Eisenach on November 4, 2011, after which he was finally exposed. Mundlos and Böhnhardt committed suicide, and Zschäpe turned himself in to the police after a few days and was taken to court.
“According to recent findings,” the suspicion against Susann E. has been further strengthened, the Federal Prosecutor General said. She is still at large. By his own admission, her husband is no longer a neo-Nazi, has withdrawn into family life and registered with the Saxony dropout program.