It was a little surprising then. After two days in which a government party chairman and defense minister considered the attack in Halle an "alarm signal" and a federal president thought it "unimaginable"; in which the ARD terrorism expert stated that the perpetrator had "poisoned" the Internet, was ultimately a normal murderer, that he was doing so in a doner kebab, have really mean nothing; After two such days everything was expected - in the first polittalk after the extreme right-wing murders on Wednesday. Because we got used to the fact that these rounds are brushed on riot.
It was not like that. No party fee at "Maybrit Illner", no AfD, not the usual question mark behind the mission title "attack in Halle - deadly hatred of Jews in Germany". No one who "But the violence of the left!" cried. No fog candle battles. No one, the analyzes à la "alarm", "unimaginable", "poisoned on the Internet", "the doner kebab was a coincidence" in the room.
Instead, a rarity in such a format: The guests did not even bother with their technical expertise to hide the all-encompassing daunting situation. Everyone was genuinely upset, some seemed brief, as if they were close to tears.
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For a long time, this abyss seemed clear. Stephan J. Kramer , President of the Thuringian Constitution Protection since 2015 and previously General Secretary of the Central Council of Jews, said: "My working hypothesis was: We have right-wing terrorist structures, but we just do not see them." The reaction: he exaggerates.
Sebastian Fiedler , Federal Chairman of the German Criminal Investigation Association, said: "We only ever sit together when something happens, that's the bitter truth." Even a law to facilitate the vote of the police officers between the countries, was for years in the making. Added to this is the lack of staff in all the necessary tasks.
Green politician Marina Weisband , a member of the Jewish community, said, "We've been saying for years that we do not feel safe."
And for those who need it quite clearly, said Elmar Theveßen , terrorism specialist ZDF: "The signs are on the wall since 2011." He referred to the pamphlet of the Norwegian right-wing terrorist Anders Breivik. "Since then, this idea has immigrated to our societies, and parts of the AfD have adapted and fueled this ideology." Theveßen explained in passing: Who kills alone, does not act alone. And no, a killing spree for "mental crack" is not.
Only for the CDU Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff , it almost seemed like a new realization: "What have we admitted, what are we trivializing?" One simply had the offender "not on the screen", the attack stuck him, Haseloff, "in the bone", probably "to the end of my life".
Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) has called for new mechanisms in the fight against assassins such as Halle.
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Can anyone remember such an affected round after the NSU murders? Just. This mix of "We've seen the abyss for years" and "Oh, that's really so bad" reminds us astonishingly of the reactions to the climate crisis.
And as always, when something happened, it was about two things: reason and solution. Solutions were on Thursday evening, however, only in the variant "discouraging" to have. Because the reasons, see above, have been clear for so long. For this, Weisband, Theveßen, and Kramer analyzed the situation so clairvoyantly that they wanted them as advisors to whom the matter seems to be putting more effort. So that no one believes anymore, the Internet is to blame.
"We are already failing to prevent language violence"
Here, for the index cards: The terrorist ideology consists of a "triad of racism, anti-Semitism, anti-feminism," said Weisband. "Against all those who are declared differently," added Theveßen and quoted a plaque in the Flossenbürg concentration camp. But: "We are already failing to prevent language violence," said Weisband, "on the Internet, in Parliament, in programs like this". And so she set herself to the connecting, against the insistence, anti-Semitism is above all Muslim: "I'm no longer willing that minorities are played off against each other."
So what was missing?
For example, the question of how the right-wing extremist networks in and with the police, the Bundeswehr, the constitutional protection and ex-constitutional protection chief Maaßen are ordered.
What is missing, then Illner wanted to know.
"Education, education, education," said intelligence chief Kramer. And then one remembers that the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs wants to promote in the future only a fraction of the previous democracy projects.
"Today I would also like to talk about Julian Reichelt [ editor-in-chief of the" Bild "newspaper - editor's note ), who has put the perpetrator on the front page", says Fiedler. "And make sure that we have the next culprit soon." Or, as Marina Weisband said, "The enemy is hating people, you can not give them a stage."
And then you look at the guest list of the ZDF "Morgenmagazin" on Friday. Theme: The plot in Halle. With: AfD-man Jörg Meuthen.