You can't humiliate me or scare me, you can only kill me, and that's what the court is doing": Kaliningrad lawyer Maria Bunzler, in her last word in the "betrayal" case, said she was being judged for her work as a lawyer.
Kaliningrad lawyer Maria Bunzler, who is accused of "treason", had the last word in a closed session of the Regional Court, reports on the "Word for Defense" project. The text was delivered to the project by the appointed lawyer Anastasia Richter. The prosecution asked for 15 years in prison for Buntzler; The verdict, according to the defense attorneys, should be published today.
According to the investigators, Bunzler passed information about the progress of the criminal cases in which she worked as a lawyer to a person who the investigators call an employee of the special services of Ukraine: about the arrest of the accused and their detention in pretrial detention centers. Bunzler denies this. She states that all this information has already been heard in open court hearings, which means it cannot be confidential.
Bunzler also reported that the statement about the transfer of personal data of FSB employees was removed from the final indictment. All that remained was the wording that she "could move them".
In her last word she said:
"The important thing now is completely different, that I am persecuted not as a citizen Maria Buntzler, but as a lawyer Maria Buntzler! A defense attorney who honestly performed his work and his duty as a lawyer for so many years. A lawyer who has been accused of a crime I did not commit, in a flagrant violation and disclosure of confidentiality by the lawyer, who must defend the lawyer. Intentionally provoke me to break the law, to reveal "state secrets", and when it didn't work, they still try with all their might to draw a charge that doesn't exist."
Bunzler, 66, has been in prison since May 2025. She is seriously ill; She repeatedly had hypertensive crises in the isolation ward. The trial is being conducted behind closed doors, and the lawyers were removed from the case by consent. Bunzler has said in the past that she would refuse to have the last word in a closed session and demand it be given in public.