After the shock and the first mourning, the time of questions begins: Why did Stephan Balliet want to murder Jews in Halle? What was the drive?
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It is important to know the answers someday, because Balliet is an unusual but not unique type of perpetrator. He moved in right-wing gamer forums where mass murderers are judged. He masters the codes that only the community understands. He wrote a rough paper there, which he called "Manifesto". The idea of eradicating people in the real world probably originated in this world.
Yesterday Balliet was flown by helicopter to Karlsruhe, where the investigating judge issued arrest warrants at the Federal Court of Justice.
One can only hope that Balliet opens in the interrogations. He should talk. Say who he is, what drove him. Investigators need to know that in order to detect the next offender of this kind faster.
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Sting taunts
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How many harassment do you have to accept as a politician, when is it enough? Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is likely to get used to the constant taunts, hardly a day goes by without it. At the weekend, the taunts will be even stronger, the Junge Union is organizing its Germany Day .
The leadership of the Union newcomers has decided to invite Friedrich Merz as a speaker at short notice, not known as the closest party friend of Kramp-Karrenbauer. Merz will talk today, Kramp-Karrenbauer on Sunday, after all, they can avoid each other, the Minister of Defense is still in the Baltic States anyway.
The JU leadership has decided something else. She wants to vote on whether the chancellor candidate of the Union for the general election in 2021 will be determined by a primary vote. Also in this one can see nothing but a provocation against Kramp-Karrenbauer. As party leader, she has the first access to the chancellor candidate, a primary vote would take her this privilege. Therein lies the calculus of their opponents.
I bet the application goes through. Kramp-Karrenbauer talks about it, what will she say?
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The hated fighters
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About a hundred German IS fighters are trapped in northern Syria , guarded by Kurdish militias, who now come under pressure and fire. Two days ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan started his highly controversial ground offensive, which will continue today. His target is the Kurds of the YPG, who, according to Erdogan, are terrorists. Those Kurds who helped defeat the IS.
What if the Kurds decide to free themselves from the burden of foreign prisoners? Where then with these men, which partly include women and children?
The German state would have long had to worry about how he deals with these fighters and their families. I even think it would have been his duty to bring her back to face a German court. After all, most of them have radicalized themselves before following the call of the "Islamic State". Germany has exported the terror, then he has to take it back.
Whether we have the opportunity now, I dare to doubt. It is more likely that the prisoners could flee in great chaos. Also not a good idea.
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The winner of the day ...
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... is not confirmed until 11 o'clock today. Then the Norwegian Nobel Committee announces the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize . High is Greta Thunberg. At first glance, I was irritated: Does not their constant, angry reminder also aim to incite unrest and confrontation, in a sense therefore also deliberately discord between the generations, between the young people and politics?
At a second glance, Thunberg is of course a peacemaker. She tries to put us in a greater harmony with nature. It is committed to the losers of climate change, suffering from lack of water or stifling heat. It seeks to reconcile those who are suffering with the perpetrators by causing the polluters to cause less CO2.
How would Alfred Nobel (in the photo) have decided?
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Have a nice day.
Your Martin Knobbe
