Munich (dpa/lby) - He might have almost become the first fatality of the "National Socialist Underground" (NSU): On Monday Mehmet O., who was seriously injured in a bomb attack in Nuremberg in 1999, testified publicly for the first time - in the second NSU Committee of Inquiry of the Bavarian State Parliament. He reported in detail on the day of the attack - and that he himself had repeatedly been treated as a suspect during the investigations. "I was always accused," said O. - and reported that he had suffered from the consequences of the attack for years.
The background to the attack has only been clear since 2013: At that time, Carsten S., who was later convicted of aiding and abetting, testified in the NSU trial before the Munich Higher Regional Court. S. reported on earlier hints by NSU terrorists Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt about an attack in Nuremberg: that they had put "a flashlight" in a shop. Only after S.'s testimony were the investigators able to attribute an attack on the Nuremberg restaurant "Sonnenschein" in June 1999 to the NSU terrorists. At that time, the perpetrators had placed a pipe bomb disguised as a flashlight in the restaurant. O., who found and operated it, was injured in the explosion.
