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Lawyers for the relatives say the second-longest trial in German post-war history failed to examine the security agencies’ mistakes and the role their informants in the neo-Nazi scene played during the nearly 14 years the NSU evaded arrest.

The dead, all killed between 2000 and 2007, included eight Turkish citizens, a German policewoman and a Greek national. Uwe Mundlos, and Uwe Böhnhardt, two male friends of Zschaepe, died in a murder suicide after a robbery went wrong in 2011.

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She stands accused of helping them both with the murders and various bomb attacks during the same period, which hurt dozens. The trio had been on the run for over a decade.

Prosecutors said Zschaepe was complicit in all 10 murders as well as arson attacks, outlining various porn searches found on her computer and describing her as a calculating genius who manipulated the men.

She has insisted she was not directly involved but says she should have deterred the now dead men from carrying the attacks out.

Please do not convict me for something that I neither wanted nor did

In her closing statement Tuesday, Zschaepe appealed to judges not to hold her responsible.

“Please do not convict me for something that I neither wanted nor did,” Zschaepe told the Munich state court, saying she didn’t know why Mundlos and Boehnhardt chose their targets.

However, in a previous statement to the court she admitted burning the group’s last hideout in 2011.

“I was involved neither in the preparations, nor in the carrying out,” she said earlier of the killings, saying she felt “morally guilty” for not stopping the crimes.