Midtown Blogger/Manhattan Valley Follies: Die Welt- NSU Witness Dead

Sunday, March 29, 2015

Die Welt- NSU Witness Dead

A witness in the NSU Investigation Committee of the Stuttgart parliament died on Saturday from as yet unknown causes. The significant other have the 20 year old woman in the evening with a seizure found in her apartment, shared police and prosecutors in Karlsruhe on Sunday.

The doctors could not save the life of the young woman. For the Sunday evening autopsy was planned. In the dead is an ex-girlfriend of Florian H., a former neo-Nazi who was burned in the fall of 2013 in a car in Stuttgart. Florian H. should have known who has the policewoman Michele Kiesewetter killed in Heilbronn in 2007.

The 20-year-old had testified in the NSU-committee in non-public session because she had explained that she felt threatened. A spokesman for the police Karlsruhe said Sunday night that it previously was no evidence of foul play in the death of a woman. Due to the explosive background investigations but would vigorously pursued.

The Chairman of the Committee NSU, Wolfgang Drexler, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, it would be negligent now to express any speculation on the possible background of death. The death could have many reasons. The Committee will ask the prosecutor to inform the determination result.

Calls for strengthened security measures

The Committee shall consider in more detail the connections of the "National Socialist Underground" (NSU) in the southwest and possible failure of authorities.The right-wing terrorists of the NSU murder of nine small businesses of foreign origin and at the policewoman Kiesewetter is attributed.

In recent committee meetings, MEPs were busy with Florian H., whose death keeps the police for a suicide. But the family does not believe that Florian has killed himself. The police is on the case under pressure because they should have identified here sloppy and overlooked items in the burned-out car.

The extremism expert and Professor Hajo Funke, Berlin politics, which is followed NSU Investigation Committee and confidant of the family of Florian H., expressed shock over the death of 20-year-olds. "The security agencies are well advised to investigate this death by autopsy and intensive education," he told the German Press Agency on Sunday evening.

Otherwise, this would be another unexplained death under certain circumstances. Funke appealed to police and prosecutors to lead the investigation into the complex Florian H. comprehensive and unbiased. "Now is the hour to fully determine in all directions and educate." It is certainly useful addition to enforce safety precautions. More specifically, he was not here though.