Open statement: “I refuse freedom in exchange for a confession”

Alongside my counterstatement, I published an open statement on the position of the Prosecutor General’s Office (Generalstaatsanwaltschaft). In it, I stated publicly that I would not make a confession to obtain early release. I announced that I would continue pursuing my rehabilitation exclusively through lawful means and publish the official documents and the names of the responsible office-holders in the context of their own decisions.

The open statement also identifies the central contradiction: the Prosecutor General’s Office itself states that an admission of guilt is not mandatory, yet still uses the lack of “Tataufarbeitung” — working through the offence — and my continued insistence on my innocence as arguments against my release.