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2019-10-10T15:29:27.353Z


Here you will find the most important news of the day, the most popular stories of SPIEGEL + and tips for your end of workday. The theme of the day: The anti-Semitic attacks of Halle As Stephan Balliet heavily armed the synagogue in the ...



Here you will find the most important news of the day, the most popular stories of SPIEGEL + and tips for your end of workday.

The theme of the day: The anti-Semitic attacks of Halle

When Stephan Balliet, heavily armed, wants to storm the synagogue in the center of Halle, more than 50 people are in the Jewish house of worship. But the front door stops the shots. At the end of this Wednesday, the right-wing extremist killed two people. The day after the attack, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said: "There could have been many more victims." The 27-year-old perpetrator had a "massacre" in mind, the investigators say. "What we experienced yesterday was terror."

More and more details are known about the terrorist act. That the man from Saxony-Anhalt probably built part of his weapons himself; that the police found four kilograms of explosive in his rented gulf; that the victims are a 40-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man. My colleagues keep you up to date in the news blog.

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Mourners in Halle

According to current knowledge, the attacker is a single offender. But you can not look at his deed in isolation. The murders he transmitted live via helmet camera to the Internet. My colleague Patrick Beuth explains how the video spread.

The act raises many questions. Just how certain Jewish institutions in Germany are at all. Or how dangerous right hatred can become in the internet - and to what extent the German security authorities have failed to develop. My colleague Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt provides an assessment in this video.

The number of the day: nine million

That's the sum that Peter Handke and Olga Tokarczuk can look forward to - in Swedish kroner. Converted about 830,000 euros receive the two freshly crowned Nobel laureates. Handke was awarded for the year 2019, Tokarczuk for the previous year, in which the award was canceled because of a scandal in the Swedish Academy. The Polish author is best known for her novels. Peter Handke is the first German-language award winner since Herta Müller in 2009. My colleague Volker Weidermann congratulates.

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Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke

News: What you need to know today

  • Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened the EU with opening up millions of refugees: the Turkish President responded to criticism of his country's offensive in northern Syria.
  • German exports are shrinking unexpectedly strong: Foreign trade is no longer driving the economy, in August exports have fallen even more sharply than experts had predicted.
  • Romania's government has been voted out: with a vote of no confidence, the opposition overthrew the government of Prime Minister Viorica Dancila. The backgrounds.
  • The European Parliament has rejected Emmanuel Macron's candidate for the new EU Commission: the Frenchwoman Sylvie Goulard did not get the necessary majority.

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Sylvie Goulard

Opinion: The most discussed comments, interviews, essays

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The attempt of the attempt of the child abuse: Federal Government and Federal Council want to shift the punishability border with the so-called Cybergrooming. Does this improve the protection? The column by Thomas Fischer.

Stories: The most read texts at SPIEGEL +

Home lessons in Germany: They suffer from Aspergers, have been bullied or can not attend a normal school because of their fame. But even these children need education. Visiting an internet school.

The last Social Democrat: It goes down with the SPD, even in Thuringia, only not with Georg Maier. The Social Democrat is as his party would like to be: close to the people and active against the right. My colleague Max Holscher met him.

My evening: the recommendations for your end of workday

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What you might look like: As a kid, the "Joker" has always been a crazy joke to me from the Batman comics. Even Jack Nicholson had the superhero opponent 1989 but given a particularly dark character. Unforgettable, however, is the appearance of the now deceased Heath Ledger - and his smacking, giggling, tottering, brutal interpretation of 2008. Now Todd Philipps' "Joker" starts in the cinemas, the prehistory of the villain (Read here an interview with leading actor Joaquin Phoenix ). My colleague Andreas Borcholte has already seen the film - and recommends it as a "masterful, very gloomy and socially critical character study".

I wish you a nice finishing time.

warmly

Kevin Hagen from the Daily Team

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