Unexpectedly early in the appeal trial of seven anti-fascist front of the Stuttgart District Court ended today with suspended sentences. On the second from six planned days of negotiations was the verdict that was the result of a "deal" between prosecutors, court and defense was spoken.
had on this result, first hinted at nothing: After the first trial, at which were present for more than 90 supporters from different spectra and a rally outside the courthouse by lead, read only the charges and had been provided to the personal circumstances of the defendants were For the second trial, still more than 50 caring process facilitators appeared to observe the proceedings. Actually, today a variety of police witnesses should be heard. Since the same as the first witness failed to appear was a longer pause procedure, which was apparently used by the judge to propose a so-called "deal". Core of this deal was a significant reduction of sentence for all defendants, if the defense withdraw the appeal and the sentence would be limited to. Insbeondere promised the court not, as has happened in the first process to issue prison sentences against three of the comrades, but to suspend all sanctions on probation. In the first instance of three accused were to be jailed for up to 2 years and 6 months and 4 defendants probation been convicted of 9 or 10 months. Since the defendants accepted the proposal, received four of the seven now 6 months and the other three 14-month sentence on probation.
The political assessment of this appeal remains ambivalent: on the one hand, it is certainly also a result showing the public pressure could be built, so was the call for the process support including trade unionists and Anne Groh supported a member of the Bundestag and could through various actions a relatively general public to be created. The result is how the multi-year detention of three comrades averted. On the other hand, the seven again, as in the first instance without Evidence convicted. While several lawyers made it clear in their pleadings that the withdrawal of the appeal is not an admission of guilt, but rather the pragmatism stems to avoid imprisonment, but the judge wanted herauszulesen expected from a form of confession. Also tried to the judge, the political sovereignty of interpretation to win the case and used his verdict to find the defense of the monopoly of the state to condemn the militant anti-fascism itself: Legal clumsy, he quoted from in this context, a confrontation between the Communists and the right helmet times of the Weimar Republic, to complain to the victims on both sides were contemplated. The fact that these (and many others) confrontation, not only on "both sides suffering" was followed, but had also played the fascism with millions dead and the role of the bourgeois state here, but deliberately concealed the Judge.
A detailed report will follow shortly.
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