Bonn - Finally: After a long tug of war, and has a controversial television appearance Nourig testified in honor killing process against its announcement after all.
The 35-year-old chief witness on Monday severely burdened in a video testimony of her father Ali H. (65). He allegedly strangled his 17-year-old daughter Waffa 1993 with a rope. The body has still not been found.
Black wig, big sunglasses: Nourig sat at a table, answered the questions easily via video camera deferred by Udo Buhren. The chairman of the jury could see the witness on a large screen.
Then Nourigs statement: The 35-year-old breathed deeply several times, as Buhren she taught at the beginning. Their tension was great: She would accuse her father of murdering his sister.
But the performance achieved sovereignty. Liquid and secure the witness told 1993.Nourig of that night in the summer: "My father called me at 5:30 clock in the morning out of bed. Waffa lay dead on the couch. Father said that happened to me the same thing if I do not stick to the rules. "
Two cousins of the dead woman's father had packed in a box, placed with its Opel Kadett at a pre-dug pit and buried.
Ten years Nourig dragged her secret with him. The witness: "I've lived under a bell, had only worked well. But I'm traumatized. It was unbearable for me that my sister was murdered. "
The hearing did not take place in camera, because Nourig rather unceremoniously into the witness box in a contribution of the ZDF magazine "Frontal 21 came" before the camera - was there even without the sunglasses.
Defender Pauka Benedict: "She makes a show because she wants to sell her book." Cousin H. Ramadan, the court has set free. His counsel Carsten Rubarth: "Even if she would accuse him of other murders, that would not confuse the defense."
