{"id":36659,"date":"2013-04-16T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T10:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=36659"},"modified":"2013-04-16T13:01:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T10:01:38","slug":"german-court-delay-neo-nazi-murder-trial-for-turkish-press-germany-news-36659","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/german-court-delay-neo-nazi-murder-trial-for-turkish-press-germany-news-36659\/","title":{"rendered":"German Court delay Neo-Nazi murder trial for Turkish press \/ Germany News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The start of the most high-profile neo-Nazi murder trial since 1945 \u00a0in post-war Germany has been delayed from this week until early May, a court in the southern city of Munich said Monday.<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Proceedings were to begin Wednesday against a woman accused of being part of a far-right killer cell called blamed for 10 murders, but Germany’s top court ordered the Munich judges last week to expand foreign media access to the trial.<\/p>\n

“This is no longer possible to organize in the time remaining until the start of main deliberations on April 17th, 2013,” the court said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The trial of Beate Zsch\u00e4pe, sole surviving member of the so-called National Socialist Underground (NSU), is now to begin on May 6.<\/p>\n

The NSU is accused of killing eight ethnic Turks, a Greek man and a German policewoman between 2000 and 2007. Alongside Zsch\u00e4pe, four alleged accomplices also face charges.<\/p>\n

Germany’s highest court on Friday upheld a complaint by a Turkish newspaper over media access to the trial in a controversy that had strained ties with Ankara.<\/p>\n

The presiding judge in the case had assigned guaranteed seats at the hearings on a first-come, first-served basis, resulting in German reporters taking nearly all 50 of the reserved places and most international media outlets having no reliable access to the courtroom.<\/p>\n

“There will be a new [media] accreditation process,” said court spokeswoman Andrea Titz on Monday. “I can’t precisely say what the judges have in mind.”<\/p>\n

After a lawsuit by Turkish newspaper Sabah, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the Munich tribunal must provide “an appropriate number of seats to representatives of foreign media with a particular connection to the victims”.<\/p>\n

The federal judges suggested reserving three seats for foreign media or restarting the press accreditation process from scratch.<\/p>\n

The Turkish government, victims’ representatives, German leaders and journalists had hit out at a lack of “sensitivity” by the Munich court in light of the massive public interest in the case.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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