{"id":252,"date":"2006-06-09T05:57:33","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T09:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/letter-from-munich-085\/"},"modified":"2006-06-09T05:57:33","modified_gmt":"2006-06-09T09:57:33","slug":"letter-from-munich-085","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/munichletters\/letter-from-munich-085\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Munich – 085"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letter from Munich – the Joseph Affair \u2013 85<\/strong><\/p>\n

EINE DEUTSCHE FASSUNG STEHT WEITER UNTEN.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.joseph_affair.blogspot.com (It may take a few minutes to load this page, depending on internet connection speed.)<\/p>\n

23 August 2002 <\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Graf, dear friends,<\/p>\n

Helmut plans next week to read to us the second part of the interrogation transcript that he began reading last week. He recently received a letter from the Kantelberg-Abdullas that he wanted to read to us:<\/p>\n

\u201cOur son was killed in one of the cruellest ways possible. The only way the authorities could play down and cover up the murder and their botched investigation of it was to bring a charge of incitement to making false statements, against myself, my wife, and our daughter Diana.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese charges have now been dropped in the case of my wife and myself, but not against our daughter Diana. The authorities supposedly forgot to withdraw the charges against her as well. People who believe that, though, will believe anything.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still have not had returned to us any of the documents or other items that the district attorney seized, certainly not the video recording of my wife interviewing Fraulein Loesel. Our lawyer, Mr. Sawitzky, has said that not even he has seen this video. My wife has still not received a transcript of her questioning by the authorities, even though she has asked for it many times.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncidentally, Chief District Attorney Schaer is responsible for overseeing the proceedings that deal with the charges that have been brought against right-wing extremists in Dresden. He\u2019s the same district attorney that was in charge of the first investigation and deliberately made a mess of it, together with his Inspector Himpel, a specialist in arson in Saxony, who has since been suspended from duty. So they put the fox in charge of the hen house, and you can just imagine what\u2019ll come of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur creditors are continually threatening us through the courts. First I and then my wife were ordered to appear in court: \u2018If you do not appear at the appointed time or if you refuse to make a sworn statement without sufficient reason, then the warrant for your arrest that your creditors have applied for will be issued.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cSo psychological pressure is still being brought to bear on the parents of the murdered child, after they lost home and their means of earning a living and after they were driven out of the \u2018liberated national Zone\u2019 (the term used by German right-wing extremists to denote areas they have \u2018cleansed\u2019 of foreigners and Jews). <\/p>\n

\u201cThe murderers, though, are still running around free. The only important thing for us is to know if some action will be taken against these murderers of our son. Only then will we feel our reputation has been restored.<\/p>\n

\u201cA well-known opposition Social Democrat member of the parliament of Saxony, Karl Nolle, has pointed out that it is a matter of record that Kurt Biedenkopf, Biedenkopf\u2019s parents and his wife\u2019s parents either co-operated with the Nazis during World War II or were close to the right wing in the years afterward. (Biedenkopf is the former conservative Prime Minister of Saxony. Some of the people who were arrested, questioned and later released in connection with the death of the Kantelberg-Abdullas\u2019 child were children of prominent members of Biedenkopf\u2019s own political party. The Kantelberg-Abdullas have always insisted the investigation into their child\u2019s death was no more than a politically motivated whitewash.)<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have long been powerful outside attempts to interfere with the investigation of Joseph\u2019s murder. How long will the manipulation of judicial and police investigative powers go on?\u201d<\/p>\n

As always, I was shocked that anyone could voice such an opinion about Germany, a country based on the rule of law and order.<\/p>\n

The transcript begun in the last letter will be continued next week.<\/p>\n

Sincerely yours,<\/p>\n

Robert John Bennett<\/p>\n

Mauerkircherstrasse 68<\/p>\n

81925 Germany<\/p>\n

Telephone: +49.89.981.0208<\/p>\n

E-Mail: rjbennett@post.harvard.edu<\/p>\n

E-Mail Saad and Renate Kantelberg-Abdulla: majoskantelberg@t-online.de<\/p>\n

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Since many recipients of this letter may read German more easily than they read English, the following is the author\u2019s own translation of the above letter. Please note that word-processing programs outside of German-speaking countries may not display all of the letters of the German alphabet correctly.<\/p>\n

Bitte vergessen Sie nicht, dass der Autor dieses Briefes Autodidakt ist, was die deutsche Sprache betrifft, und er wei\u00df, dass, wenn es um eine \u00dcbersetzung aus der deutschen Sprache ins Englische geht, viele Fehler hervortreten m\u00fcssen. Er hofft aber, man werde diese Fehler \u00fcbersehen, um hinter den Fehlern das sehen zu k\u00f6nnen, was in diesem Schreiben und in dieser Aff\u00e4re von zentraler Bedeutung ist.<\/p>\n

Alle Briefe aus M\u00fcnchen sind abrufbar:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.joseph_affair.blogspot.com (Es k\u00f6nnte eine Weile dauern, diese Seite zu laden; es kommt auf die Schnelligkeit der Internet-Verbindung an.)<\/p>\n

M\u00fcnchen, den 23. August 2002<\/p>\n

Sehr geehrter Herr Graf, sehr geehrte Freunde,<\/p>\n

Helmut hat vor, erst n\u00e4chste Woche den zweiten Teil des Protokolls vorzulesen, den er letzte Woche begonnen hat, weil er einen Brief von der Familie Kantelberg-Abdulla empfingen, den er uns vorlesen wollte:<\/p>\n

\u201eUnser Sohn wurde auf bestialische Art und Weise get\u00f6tet, so dass die sogenannte Anstiftung zur Falschaussage gegen mich, meine Frau und Diana den sauberen Herren als einzige L\u00f6sung blieb, um den Mord herunterzuspielen.<\/p>\n

Das Verfahren wegen Anstiftung gegen mich und meine Frau hat man eingestellt, nicht aber das Verfahren gegen meine Tochter Diana. Angeblich wurde die Einstellung des Verfahrens gegen Diana einfach nur vergessen. Wer es glaubt, wird selig.<\/p>\n

Bis jetzt haben wir immer noch nicht unsere Unterlagen zur\u00fcckerhalten, auch nicht das Video, das zeigt, wie meine Frau Fr\u00e4ulein L\u00f6sel interviewt. Noch nicht einmal unser RA Herr Sawitzky hat diese Videoaufnahme – wie er uns mitteilte – bis heute gesehen. Meine Frau hat bis heute noch nicht einmal ihr Vernehmungsprotokoll erhalten, trotz mehrfachen Nachfragens. <\/p>\n

\u00dcbrigens f\u00fchrt Herr Oberstaatsanwalt Sch\u00e4r, der gleiche Staatsanwalt, der das erste Ermittlungsverfahren leitete und bewusst mit seinem suspendierten KOK Himpel (spezialisiert in Sachen Brandstiftung) in den Sand setzte, jetzt die Anklage gegen die Rechten in Dresden. Man macht den Bock zum G\u00e4rtner. Was rauskommt kann man sich denken.<\/p>\n

Uns droht laufend der Gerichtsvollzieher. Erst schrieb er mich an, dann meine Frau. Morgen soll sie zum Termin erscheinen. In den Papieren hei\u00dft es w\u00f6rtlich: \u201aFalls Sie zu dem Termin nicht erscheinen oder wenn Sie sich grundlos weigern, die eidesstattliche Versicherung abzugeben, wird auf Antrag des Gl\u00e4ubigers einen Haftbefehl gegen Sie erlassen.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Die Eltern des ermordeten Kindes, die aus der nationalbefreiten Zone vertrieben wurden, ihr Haus, ihre Existenz verloren haben, versucht man weiterhin psychisch unter Druck zu setzen.<\/p>\n

Die M\u00f6rder laufen frei herum. Nur die Frage, ob irgendetwas gegen die M\u00f6rder unseres Sohnes unternommen wird, ist wichtig. Dann sind auch wir rehabilitiert.<\/p>\n

Herr Nolle sagt selbst in einem Interview, dass Herr Biedenkopf, seine Eltern und die Eltern seiner Frau dem rechten Spektrum zuzuordnen sind.<\/p>\n

Es ist wieder \u201ain\u2019 rechts zu sein. <\/p>\n

Es wurde massiv daran gearbeitet die Ermordung von Joseph herunterzuspielen. Bis wohin ging diese Manipulation?\u201c<\/p>\n

Wie immer war ich schockiert, dass man eine solche Meinung \u00fcber das Rechtsstaat Deutschland \u00e4u\u00dfern konnte.<\/p>\n

Fortsetzung des Protokolls n\u00e4chste Woche.<\/p>\n

Mit freundlichen Gr\u00fc\u00dfen<\/p>\n

Robert John Bennett<\/p>\n

Mauerkircherstrasse 68<\/p>\n

81925 Germany<\/p>\n

Telephone: +49.89.981.0208<\/p>\n

E-Mail: rjbennett@post.harvard.edu<\/p>\n

E-Mail an Herrn und Frau Dr. Kantelberg-Abdulla: majoskantelberg@t-online.de<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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