Abdurrahim Özüdoğru

The victim

Abdurrahim Özüdoğru was born in 1952 in Yenişehir, Turkey.¹ He came to Germany from Turkey in 1972 as a so-called guest worker to work as a skilled metalworker. On the side, he built up an alteration tailoring business. He left behind a then 19-year-old daughter, Tülin Özüdogru.

The crime

The murder of Abdurrahim Özüdoğru on June 13, 2001 was the second known murder of the NSU and the first of three in Nuremberg. He was killed around 4:30 p.m. by two shots to the head from the Ceska 83 with which the NSU murders were committed. Afterwards, the perpetrators took a photo of the murdered Abdurrahim Özüdoğru, which can also be seen in the NSU's confession film. Five hours later at 9:30 p.m., Özüdoğru's body was found by a passerby.

The investigation

The police investigation did not consider the possibility of a right-wing extremist attack, but assumed an act in the context of drug-related crime. One of the investigating police officers later wrote in a police memo that he had found "not uncommon knickknacks for apartments of Turks. In the NSU trial, one of the police officers then made disparaging remarks about the alleged condition of the apartment.

H.'s statement irritated many observers. Several times the 67-year-old comments on Özüdogru's household, speaks of a "grown disorder", the "so-called living room" and also loses a few words about the girlfriend the killed man had taken on after the divorce from his wife.²

Nothing is known about further investigations after that until the NSU's self-disclosure.

Footnotes

1. Wikipedia accessed 03.02.2022 ↩

2. Zeugen verstören, Zeugen fantasieren, Zeit accessed 03.02.2022 ↩