NSU investigation: Listening to mourning
Wants to restore her father's reputation: Semiya Simsek, the daughter of the first NSU victim, Enver Simsek.
© Imago / Wiegand WagnerDogs bark, do not bite - it's the silent enemies that are the most dangerous, says Adile Simsek in the Sprinter, where her husband was shot a few weeks earlier.
She does not know that a silent enemy, who was supposed to be a friend, is sitting in the car when she and her brother drive back from Nuremberg to Schlüchtern, their place of residence in Hesse. In Nuremberg, her husband was killed on September 9, 2000, when she has just been questioned by the police for the third time. The interrogator Albrecht Vögeler has repeatedly questioned her about the "dark side" of her husband, the flower wholesaler Enver Simsek.
Adile Simsek said: "My husband spoke a lot - he was not afraid." Although investigators will continue to make new allegations against their deceased husband years later, Adile Simsek never becomes suspicious, as is clear from the minutes of the interrogations.
The police are driving their followers home - in the buggy
Distrustful, however, is Albert Vögeler. The police investigate the murder case of Simsek, and it is very clear to him: The close family members do not "tell the police the truth about their actual knowledge of a suspected crime." He suggests to listen to her. And he has devised a very special tactic for this: He offers the two mourners to drive home after the interrogation with the Sprinter, in which Enver Simsek was killed with seven shots in the back of the truck.
The blood has disappeared, the police had the car cleaned. And the ceiling of the cab bugs.
The investigators do not hear much, the driving noises of the engine are too loud. That Hüseyin B. contradicts his sister, they get along. Enver does not have a secret enemy. And: It was such a pity that he died just now, where he was so well. Enver Simsek was in the process of selling his flower wholesale business to spend more time with his wife and children. "Adile Simsek adds that Enver still had so many dreams," says the interview protocol.
The widow and the brother-in-law of the dead speak little on this return journey. They are in shock - and they are under suspicion, but they do not know that. Neither is that their conversation is overheard that their phone calls are heard. The connection of Adile Simsek for months after the fact, the interception decision is renewed again and again.
Again and again requested by Albrecht Vögeler. In a first progress report dated October 4, 2000, he summarizes under "imaginable motivational situations": robbery, drug trafficking, motive in the family environment, motive in the business area. He notes: The personal investigations focus on "the group of people around G. and the next of kin of the victim, Adile SIMSEK and Hüseyin B."
Fatal errors in the investigation
From Soko "Schneider" via Soko "Halbmond" to BAO "Bosphorus" - the police officer Albrecht Vögeler was involved from beginning to end in the fruitless investigation into the Ceska murder series. He had to answer in two committees of inquiry for his fatal investigation errors. Today he is heard in the NSU trial as a witness.
Semiya and Abdulkerim Simsek, the two children of the first victim of the NSU, will be in the courtroom for the first time since the trial began. You know very well that Albrecht Vögeler is not sitting in the dock. And they know that in Room A101 there is no further committee of inquiry. But they want to hear from the investigator if he continues to uphold the suspicion against her mother and uncle. They want to completely cleanse their father's reputation.
Semiya Simsek came specially from Turkey. A few weeks ago she gave birth to her first son Can. She now lives near the village where her father wanted to move again, after he had handed over his business in Germany.
For Albrecht Vögeler and his colleagues, that alone was suspicious. Before the deputies of the NSU Committee of Inquiry of the Bundestag Albrecht Vögeler had expressed yet that Enver Simsek "conspicuously" wanted to sell its flower wholesale to distant relatives. In addition, there have always been "guesses in the direction of the PKK", which was also expressed by relatives, he justifies his investigation strategy. Evidence of drug trafficking by Enver Simsek also existed, was searched for years without success.
Albrecht Vögeler also confronts Adile Simsek with these allegations in an interrogation: "We also learned that Enver Simsek was in contact with drug traffickers in Frankfurt.What do you say to that? "Adile Simsek collapses, saying with tears," I do not believe that. I can not imagine that. Enver was religious and would not have done that. "And:" I want to know if I have been fed on drug money or not. That is very important to me."
Drug deals? Only after ten years was the suspicion invalidated
Until November 2011, the widow of Enver Simsek had to live with this tormenting question, only then it became clear: the perpetrators were two right-wing terrorists from Thuringia.
Simsek's daughter Semiya has written a book about what her suspicions and mistrust have done to her family. How she, at the age of 14, not only had to contend with the loss of her father, but also against the reputation of murder for years.
Like her mother Adile, she did not let herself be confused in her father's picture. At a hearing two days after the death of Enver Simsek, Semiya said, "I think it must have been at least two men because my dad was a strong man, and if only one had been, he would have been able to defend himself . "
For the ChroniquesDuVasteMonde at the NSU trial site is Lena fight. She is currently reporting for ChroniquesDuVasteMonde.com and stern.de.
