Winzerla

To prevent offenses in connection with the commemoration day for the “Reichskristallnacht” (Night of Broken Glass) on 9 November 1996, two police squad vehicles stopped a car on Rudolstädter Straße in Winzerla in which Böhnhardt, Mundlos, Zschäpe, and Holger G. were riding. The occupants locked the vehicle and refused to get out. The officers took the four into custody, with Böhnhardt actively resisting. Like G., he wore an SA-style uniform — brown shirt and trousers, dark brown belt, black tie, combat boots with white laces. Among other things, the police confiscated: a black balaclava, three hatchets, a baton fitted with a pepper-spray device, a gas pistol, two combat knives, an air pistol, two magazines with 15 gas cartridges, and a throwing star. Böhnhardt was carrying nine rounds of tracer ammunition, Zschäpe a blank-firing pistol with a shoulder holster. The police opened proceedings for violation of the Weapons Act.

External sources

OTZ Jena, FD 12.11.1996 Schäfer-Gutachten im Auftrag des Freistaates Thüringen, 2012, S. 47 f. OTZ Jena FD, 17./18.5.2021 Aust/ Laabs, Heimatschutz, S. 194.