Halit Yozgat

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Halit Yozgat (* 1985 in Kassel ; † April 6, 2006 ibid) was the ninth and last victim of the series of murders that were perpetrated in major German cities from 2000 to 2006 by the right-wing extremist terrorist group National Socialist Underground (NSU). Halit Yozgat was murdered in his internet café in the Kassel district of North Holland by two targeted pistol shots in the head. At the time of the crime, Andreas Temme, an employee of the Hessian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution , was present, who was at times considered a murder suspect and was arrested. His phone was monitored by the police. Tapped conversations only became public knowledge from 2015, the investigations led to nothing until the NSU was uncovered in November 2011. Despite the further investigations against Temme, multiple interrogations of him as a witness in the Munich NSU trial and in various parliamentary investigative committees , the arrival of Yozgate's father shortly after the crime and the precise reconstruction of the course of events by the police, the attack has not yet been clarified.

Life

Holländische Str. 82

Halit Yozgat was the son of İsmail Yozgat, who immigrated from Turkey . Shortly before his murder, Halit opened an internet café at Holländische Strasse 82, where he was shot. Before that, from the year 2000 onwards, one man of Greek origin and seven men of Turkish or Kurdish origin who had lived in Germany for a long time were shot with the same Czech pistol from the Česká brand ( Ceska series of murders ). At the time of the crime, Yozgat only happened to be in the internet café that his father was supposed to be supervising at the time. However, this was late. Halit Yozgat was 21 years old.

Investigations and events immediately following the murder

An employee of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Hesse (LfV), Andreas Temme, who, according to a former neighbor in his home village, was nicknamed "Little Adolf" as a youth, was present at the time of the offense and initially in the focus of the alleged perpetrator himself Investigations come in because he was the only witness who failed to report to the police and left the internet café just seconds after the murder. During this period when his wife was heavily pregnant, Temme was a frequent customer at this Internet café, where he passed the time with an online affair using the pseudonym wildman70 . He testified that he had not seen Halit Yozgat bleeding to death behind the counter when he left the bar, nor the drops of blood on it when he paid with a 50-cent piece. He was subsequently released from the LfV Hessen and an investigation against him was discontinued.

Shortly after the fact, several employees of the LfV Hessen made phone calls with Temme, which were discussed in the NSU trial and the investigation committee in the state parliament of Hesse. At that time Temme did not want to tell a colleague on the phone and was concerned "that nobody outside may even find out anything about it." In the Hessian NSU investigative committee, the former field service manager of the Hessian LfV Frank-Ulrich Fehling said on December 21, 2015 from the fact that Temme had made a number of errors in terms of service law and lied to him.

It was not until February 20, 2015 that the original recording of a phone call intercepted on May 9, 2006, which Temme had with the then LfV secret protection officer Gerald-Hasso Hess and which seriously incriminated him: Temme was therefore in advance of the murder of Halit Yozgat in 2006 informed. As is known, he was in the internet café on April 6, 2006 at the time of the offense, but had already received specific knowledge of the planned offense, the time of the offense, the victim and the perpetrators and was therefore in the internet café. In the phone call, the LfV security officer Hess had prepared his colleague Temme for the police interrogation. Then he said a sentence that could only be heard on the original tapes and that no longer appears in the original police transcript of the phone call: "I tell everyone: if they know that something like this is happening somewhere, please don't drive by."

To what extent Temme was directly involved in the crime, whether Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt were at the scene at all, is unclear - not least because his superiors and the entire intelligence agency protect Temme. When the police turned to the Hessian Ministry of the Interior to question the V-Men Temmes directly, the then Interior Minister and current Prime Minister of the State Volker Bouffier refused.

As in other cases of the series of murders, the investigating authorities were also looking for a man of the "southern type" who is said to have walked from the internet café across the busy Holländische Strasse towards Kassel main cemetery at the time of the crime. Halit Yozgat's father told a police officer of Turkish origin that there had to be a xenophobic background and that his own family was innocent. On May 6th in Kassel and on June 11th, 2006 in Dortmund, he gave short speeches at demonstrations that called for "No 10th Victim" and attended by relatives of other murder victims of the Ceska series , Semiya Simsek and the Kubasik family , involved.

The BAO Bosporus , which has been in use since mid-2005 and was entrusted with the entire Ceska series, initially looked primarily for connections between the victims, concentrated the investigations primarily in the direction of arms or drug trafficking, gambling or betting debts and increasingly assumed the possibility “That the victims were connected to Turkish drug traffickers from the Netherlands.” However, after the murder of Halit Yozgat , the profiler Alexander Horn prepared an operational case analysis for the BAO Bosporus , in which he suspected hatred of the Turks as the motive of the two suspected perpetrators. However, this analysis met with contradiction and did not produce any tangible results.

Investigations and events after the NSU was uncovered

Investigations by the Federal Prosecutor's Office, attorneys for private individuals and court proceedings

After the two main perpetrators of the right-wing extremist attacks and murders of the terrorist group National Socialist Underground , Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt , committed suicide on November 4, 2011 and their accomplice Beate Zschäpe set fire to the Zwickau apartment and a video of the crimes confessed to various public institutions and media Yozgat's murder was also assigned to the NSU. In the confession video, reference is made to the murder. In addition, the official investigators found various Kassel-related records in the Zwickau fire rubble. Therefore, in November 2012 , the Federal Prosecutor's Office brought charges against Zschäpe as the last survivor of the terrorist cell and four assistants, among other things for the murder of Yozgat. The criminal proceedings before the Munich Higher Regional Court began in May 2013 and ended with the judgment in July 2018 (see NSU trial ). Zschäpe was sentenced to life imprisonment as an accomplice in the murder of Yozgat by Mundlos and Böhnhardt; Ralf Wohlleben and Carsten Schultze were sentenced to several years imprisonment for obtaining the murder weapon.

The Yozgat family acted as joint plaintiffs in the court proceedings and were represented by several lawyers who do not consider this official version of the events to be convincing and, in particular, do not consider the role of the Hessian state authorities in connection with the constitutional protector Andreas Temme present at the crime scene to be clear. They obtained access to files of the Hessian Ministry of the Interior, through which the processes of the day and the subsequent contacts Temme can be reconstructed to the minute. Numerous telephone calls from the LfV that were intercepted by the criminal police in 2006, in particular with Temme, which were therefore only able to be evaluated, made the circumstances of the offense look completely different for the lawyers than the state government had previously presented and enforced, including with restrictions on statements in the Process. In particular, the possible proximity of Temme to right-wing extremists and the careful treatment of Temme by the authorities after the murder raise questions from the perspective of the victims' representatives.

In his statements in the NSU trial, Temme contradicted himself several times compared to his earlier statements in the NSU investigative committees of the Bundestag and the Hessian state parliament, so that doubts remained. However, the Munich Higher Regional Court stated in July 2016 that it believed Temme's account.

An internal report by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution on the events surrounding Andreas Temme is subject to a blocking period with the unusual length of 120 years. An initiative by state officials called for the suspension of Temmes in autumn 2017, who is still employed as a state official.

Processing of the role of the Hessian state authorities and the background to the crime

The inconsistencies and open questions in this murder occupy various NSU investigative committees , in addition to the two of the German Bundestag, in particular the NSU investigative committee of the Hessian state parliament .

The Federal Criminal Police Office and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution published a list with the names of 129 possible supporters of the NSU in March 2013. Among them is the neo-Nazi Benjamin G. from the Kassel area, who worked as an undercover agent for the Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution and whose undercover agent was Andreas Temme. Both had spoken on the phone shortly before and after the murder. Again and again there were suspicions about a connection between Temme's presence in the murder and Benjamin G.'s V-Mann work. According to the authorities, G. is said to have been responsible for transmitting information about the right-wing splinter party German Party , but was apparently not a member, as discussed in the Hessian NSU investigative committee in November 2016. Experts such as Andrea Röpke suspect that G. was more of an undercover agent because of his connections to the right-wing extremist and violence-prone scene ( Blood and Honor North Hesse and Combat 18 Dortmund) who may have been in contact with the NSU.

In December 2016, as part of the second NSU investigative committee of the Bundestag, it became known that Andreas Temme may have led two other informants from the right-wing extremist scene - temporarily and as a substitute - which raises further questions as to whether Temme's presence at the murder could be related to these contacts . In March 2017, the Hessian parliamentary group of the Left Party filed a criminal complaint against Temme for undecided false testimony. In December 2016, a written instruction from March 2006 had emerged, which asked undercover agents to question their undercover agents about the series of murders and which Temme had apparently signed while he had claimed in the first parliamentary committee of inquiry in 2012 that he had no prior knowledge of the series of murders. The preliminary investigation against Temme was closed in May 2018 because no intent could be proven.

In September 2017, Corryna G., who had been in close contact with the right-wing extremist scene for years and who testified to having visited Yozgat's internet café several times in the months before the murder of Yozgat, was heard as a witness by the Hessian investigative committee. The Federal Prosecutor's Office has started investigations, in particular into a cell mate Gs in open prison, who is said to have recommended the internet café to her. The members of the investigative committee hope that this trace will provide information about possible local helpers of the NSU and about the selection of victims.

Stolen cell phone

In 2012 it became known that a section assistant from the pathological institute of the Kassel Clinic had stolen a cell phone from the pocket of the killed Yozgat. The employee admitted the theft. “Out of curiosity” he opened the refrigerator compartment in the forensic medicine department and took the mobile phone out of the pocket of the half-clothed dead man. He "played around" with the phone and also exchanged the dead man's SIM card . Barbara John , the ombudswoman for the survivors of the victims of the series of murders, called the process "scandalous and incomprehensible". She wondered why the police officers didn't immediately seize the cell phone at the scene. That points to a further investigation misconduct. During the interrogation, the pathology worker admitted to having misappropriated property of the deceased for years. His prey included gold rings, silver chains, cash and cell phones, even pacemakers.

Links between the murder of Yozgat and the murder of Lübcke

At the beginning of March 2020, the anti-fascist research platform " EXIF - Research & Analysis " published its results on untracked traces in the Yozgat murder case and their connections between the murder of Yozgat and the murder of Walter Lübcke , which were "overlooked" or suppressed. “EXIF - Research & Analysis” asked whether “the police craft could really be so miserable” or whether the investigations had been slowed down.

Commemoration

Halit Yozgat's father Ismail Yozgat spoke on behalf of the members of the series of murders in February 2012 at the central commemorative event of the German government in the Berlin Schauspielhaus on Gendarmenmarkt . He asked that Holländische Strasse , where his son was born and murdered, be renamed Halit Strasse. He also suggested that a foundation for cancer patients should be established on behalf of the victims of the series of murders and that all financial aid offered for the bereaved should flow into this foundation. The proposal to rename the street sparked a controversial debate in Kassel, in the course of which it was ultimately rejected. Instead, it was decided that a square and a tram stop in Kassel should bear his name in memory of Yozgat. There were protests against this, as this decision was not seen as appropriate. The victim's father later described the renaming as an important step and called for regular commemorations on the anniversary of his son's death.

In April 2012, on the sixth anniversary of death, the first anniversary of the death of the perpetrators, a commemorative event was held, at which the Lord Mayor of Kassel, Bertram Hilgen, laid flowers at the crime scene. 400 people attended the event, which was attended by the Turkish consul general Ilhan Saygili as well as the family.

On October 1, 2012, Halitplatz was inaugurated in Kassel to commemorate Halit Yozgat . The naming of the previously unnamed place by the mayor of Kassel, Bertram Hilgen, took place in the presence of the Turkish ambassador Hüseyin Avni Karslıoğlu , the Hesse Minister of Justice Jörg-Uwe Hahn and the victim's parents. At the memorial ceremony, a greeting from Federal President Joachim Gauck was read out.

Halitplatz ( location ) encompasses an approximately 500 m 2 , partly green, open space in front of the south-eastern side entrance to Kassel's main cemetery, at the intersection of Holländische Strasse and Mombachstrasse, and is about 100 m from the house at Holländische Strasse 82, in Halit Yozgat was killed. A street sign and a stele with a memorial plaque were placed on the square. In a joint declaration, the Lord Mayor of Kassel had previously agreed with the cities of Nuremberg , Hamburg , Munich , Rostock , Dortmund and Heilbronn that in all places where people had become victims of right- wing terrorists , memorial plaques in a similar form with a uniform message and the names of all ten victims should be set up.

The memorial was smeared with black paint in March 2013 and on the night of April 7, 2014, after the commemoration ceremony for the eighth anniversary of the victim's death, unknown perpetrators doused it with a black-brown substance. The cleaning commissioned by the city took place on the same day.

  • Halitplatz - on the left edge of the picture the entrance to the main cemetery; on the right, outside the picture, is Holländische Straße.

  • Street sign - "Halit Yozgat, 1985-2006 Kassel victim of a series of right-wing terrorist murders"

  • Stele with plaque

  • Memorial plaque with the names of the ten victims, as well as the date and place of their murder and a joint declaration by the cities of Nuremberg, Hamburg, Munich, Rostock, Dortmund, Kassel and Heilbronn.

literature

  • Stefan Aust , Dirk Laabs : Homeland Security. The state and the NSU series of murders. Pantheon, Munich 2014, in particular pp. 636–664, 670–675.
  • Hajo Funke : NSU state affair. An open investigation. Kontur, Münster, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944998-06-0 , chapter “Kassel: thwarting punishment for the 'state welfare', which remains for eight years without justification. A constitutional scandal ”, pp. 96-106.
  • Maximilian Pichl: The NSU murder in Kassel - a history of the German state apparatus and its scandals. In: Critical Justice . Volume 48, 2015, Issue 3, pp. 275–287.
  • Hessian state parliament : Report of the committee of inquiry 19/2. 19th electoral term, printed matter 19/6611, July 17, 2018, in particular from p. 321 and appendices with deviating evaluations of the SPD, Left and FDP parliamentary groups (PDF) .
  • Tanjev Schultz : NSU. The terror from the right and the failure of the state. Droemer, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-27628-0 , chapter "Verfassungsschützer am Tatort: ​​Das Internetcafé in Kassel", pp. 264-306.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tanjev Schultz: NSU. Munich 2018, p. 275.
  2. ^ Tanjev Schultz: NSU. Munich 2018, p. 268; 272.
  3. ↑ Katharina Iskandar: Kassel Murder in a New Light. Suspicious constitutional protection officer. In: FAZ.net . November 14, 2011, accessed May 27, 2012.
  4. ↑ Protection of the Constitution under pressure. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , February 22, 2015.
  5. ^ Colleague thinks ex-constitution protection officers are liars. ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Hessenschau.de , December 21, 2015, accessed on March 22, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hessenschau.de
  6. ↑ Andrea Kinzinger: Nine dead men and a mysterious constitutional protection officer. In: Spiegel Online . July 14, 2007, accessed May 28, 2012.
  7. ↑ Series of murders against Turkish small business owners. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 10, 2005.
  8. ^ Stefan Aust, Per Hinrichs, Dirk Laabs: NSU murder in Kassel: references to entanglement of the protection of the constitution. In: Welt Online , February 22, 2015.
  9. ↑ Tom Sundermann: Rehabilitation for constitutional protector Andreas T. In: Zeit Online , NSU-Prozess-Blog, July 13, 2016.
  10. ↑ Susanne Höll: The dust trickles softly. A file is said to be under lock and key for 120 years. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 2, 2017.
  11. ^ Nicole Schippers: Because of the Halit Yozgat case: Temme's suspension at the RP Kassel required. In: HNA.de , September 20, 2017.
  12. ↑ See, for example, the shorthand record of Tuesday, September 11, 2012 of the first Bundestag committee of inquiry into the NSU with the statements of Andreas Temme and Lutz Irrgang .
  13. ↑ Andreas Förster: NSU: The actual underground. In: Berliner Zeitung , March 26, 2013.
  14. ↑ Martín Steinhagen: German Party: New Questions for the NSU Committee.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , November 27, 2016; Andrea Röpke: The Nazi undercover agent and the NSU. In: Zeit Online , Störungsmelder , February 23, 2015.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fr.de  
  15. ↑ Pitt von Bebenburg, Martín Steinhagen: NSU: Temme led more informants than known.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , December 17, 2016.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fr.de  
  16. ↑ Pitt von Bebenburg: NSU: Left faction shows Temme because of false statements.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , March 22, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fr.de  
  17. ↑ Investigation against Andreas Temme stopped. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 3, 2018.
  18. ↑ Pitt von Bebenburg: New track to the NSU?  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Frankfurter Rundschau , September 21, 2017. For Corryna G. and her involvement in right-wing networks, see Sonja Brasch: Unanswered questions: The end of the Hessian committee of inquiry. In: Lotta . No. 69, February 6, 2018; Combat 18: Reunion. In: EXIF - Research & Analysis , July 16, 2018.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fr.de  
  19. ^ Jens Bauszus: Fledging corpses in the Kassel Clinic. Pathology staff stole NSU murder victims. In: focus.de . May 25, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  20. ↑ Unfollowed traces in the murder case Halit Yozgat - connections between the NSU murder & the murder of Walter Lübcke. On: exif-recherche.org. Retrieved March 2, 2020.
  21. ^ NSU murders: neo-Nazi lived next to Yozgat in Kassel. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . March 1, 2020, accessed March 2, 2020.
  22. ↑ Mely Kiyak : Dear Ismail Yozgat! In: Frankfurter Rundschau . February 25, 2012, Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  23. ↑ Uwe Gerritz, jaar: In memory of neo-Nazi victims. Discussion about “Halit Street”.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: hr-online.de . February 25, 2012, Retrieved May 28, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hr-online.de  
  24. ↑ In memory of the victims of the Zwickau terror cell. A place for Halit Yozgat. In: Sueddeutsche.de . April 3, 2012, Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  25. ↑ Ulrike Pflüger-Scherb: Street signs pasted over: Stickers with Halit Yozgat as a protest. In: HNA-online. May 8, 2012, accessed April 12, 2016.
  26. ↑ a b Great condolences on the anniversary of the murder of Halit Yozgat. In: Stadt-Kassel.de. April 6, 2012, Retrieved May 28, 2012.
  27. ^ Joachim F. Tornau: Kassel receives Halit-Platz. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . October 1, 2012.
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  29. ↑ Halitplatz: Unknown desecrate memorial stone for NSU victims In: HNA.de. April 7, 2014, accessed April 12, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Yozgat, Halit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German NSU murder victim
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2006
Place of death kassel