Regensburg stage for Mahler's hand puppet

Stefan Aigner • 6 May 2011

Voice of a neo-Nazi celebrities: the 64 year old Gerd Walther.

A light sentence for a defendant who received the desired panel and a phased clearly overwhelmed Judge: This is the verdict after two days and 14 hours of negotiations with the Berlin Gerd Walther before the District Court of Regensburg (our report on the first of the trial).

Convicted of sedition Ursula Schimke Kinskofer the court notorious Jew-haters on Friday to a suspended sentence of four months. The 64 year old bachelor has been previously convicted several times for sedition, but also because of embezzlement, abuse and showing a crime. The prosecution had called for in view of this and because of the "lack of awareness wrong" with Walther eight months in prison.

Denial is "in spite of all word games"

During the trial of Holocaust-denying Pius brother Richard Williamson about a year ago in Regensburg Walther had pushed himself in front of the TV cameras and said in part: "The courts have yet at the Auschwitz trial proof of emergency. There is no forensic evidence of the obviousness of the Holocaust. "

By this statement was the offense of sedition clearly met, the Schimke-Kinskofer. Walther did with his "embossed high-intensity performance" by deliberately sought a platform to disturb the public peace. "In spite of all word games," both objectively and subjectively remains the assertion that the mass murder had taken place against the Jews (as an introduction: Arguments against Holocaust deniers).

In contrast to the clarity of the ruling the judge made it clear miss in negotiating line.

Judge Walther makes it easy

Walther had been denied on the two days of the hearing a reasonable opportunity to qualify this mass murder, to contest and to make fun of. Without hardship and, despite several references by Attorney Marcus Lang, to deprive the defendants the word if it does not matter to outer, permitted them to Ursula Schimke Kinskofer Walther. Even the public defender Uli Boldt was on the edge of the process by surprise, "how easy" it would make his client. "The judge would have far more opportunities to stop this," said Boldt. One should note that the procedure without long-prosecutor probably would have run completely out of control. He repeatedly pointed Judge Schimke Kinskofer out the relevant passages of the Code of Criminal Procedure - sometimes with success.
Trial monitor for her partner? The Ebersberger Rechtsextremistin Sylvia Stolz.

Gerd Walther used the podium offered him heartily, and left - much to the delight of the audience - no doubt about his state of mind. From its seven on Wednesday of visiting supporters were left on Friday to three.

The well-known admirer of Hitler and condemned Holocaust relevant Leugnerin Sylvia noted with pride, eager to two days, which Walther had carried forward. She repeatedly consulted with Walther in the judicial recess.

Proud 'boyfriend, former lawyer, convicted terrorist, anti-Semitic rabble-rouser and Horst Mahler, may be considered as a guiding spirit of the proceedings. He has written several documents, the Walther was in part for the record, some leaving. Ultimately, Walther was only the puppet, which will perform Mahler's outpourings in Regensburg the rule of law, the Constitution and freedom of expression was allowed.

"Bloody process" for Herzogenrath-Amelung

Prominent visitors came from Regensburg: the lawyer Günther Herzogenrath-Amelung looked several times over in the courtroom to talk with Sylvia Stolz, process observers, his theses on the Holocaust aufzunötigen and always something to murmur about a "bloody process."

Herzogenrath-Amelung has of Nazi-size Erich Priebke, the Skinheads Switzerland to terrorists to justice shall defend Martin Wiese Some of what is in the scene standing and reputation. As a lawyer he knows how to qualify for the mass murder of Jews by legal formulations, such as: "Go to Auschwitz. Educate yourself and then you show me a single photo of a gas chamber. "

Gerd Walther had already announced during the procedure again and again to try to bring his case to the Constitutional Court. Such a line Horst Mahler had already spent a few years ago.

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http://www.regensburg-digital.de/regensburger-buhne-fur-mahlers-handpuppe/06052011/