The Murder of Halit Yozgat

On April 6, 2006, shortly after 5 p.m., Halit Yozgat was found shot to death behind the front desk of his family’s Internet café at Holländische Straße 82 in Kassel. It was the ninth killing in a series of murders committed between 2000 and 2007 throughout Germany targeting members of migrant communities.

The perpetrators were later identified as members of the National Socialist Underground NSU, a neo-Nazi group that allegedly consisted of just three people. During the police investigation into the Kassel murder case, it emerged that an employee of the Hessian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Andreas Temme, was present in the café at the time of the murder. He was the only one of the seven witnesses who did not report to the police, but was later identified through Internet records, and his presence on an online dating site under the username “wildman70”.


Temme claimed to have never heard the gunshots which killed Halit Yozgat nor seen his bloodied corpse slumped behind the counter of the 77 square meter internet cafe. The former employee of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution also claims not to have smelled the gunpowder residue. As a witness in the NSU trial before the Munich Higher Regional Court he claimed that he logged off the computer and, when he did not see anyone behind the reception desk, put a 50 cent coin on the counter, and left.

Was Temme's statement that he had not seen the victim on the ground his first lie? And were there many more lies to follow? Was he just there by chance, and what did he see? Two co-plaintiff lawyers for the Yozgat family said in 2015 that he must have known much more about the murder than he later admitted. They were certain that Temme had lied in court.

Investigators also had their doubts, but could not prove anything to the contrary against the testimony of Temme. Temme reconstructed for the police how he claimed to have moved through the Internet café on the afternoon of April 6. Fore