Overview

• Semiya Şimşek, joined by the daughters of two other NSU victims, has started a petition opposing Beate Zschäpe’s inclusion in an extremist exit program.
• Şimşek argues Zschäpe still maintains ties to right-wing extremists and says the convict has had ample time to provide full disclosure about the NSU.
• Relatives contend the NSU complex remains insufficiently clarified and recall that families waited years for answers while sometimes facing suspicion from investigators.
• The NSU murdered ten people and carried out bomb attacks; Zschäpe was convicted in 2018 and received a life sentence with particular severity of guilt, and Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt died by suicide in 2011.
• On September 9, Semiya and her brother Abdulkerim Şimşek plan to commemorate their father at the Nuremberg crime scene on the 25th anniversary of the attack.