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The topic of the day: Fritz von Weizsäcker killed
It's 6:50 pm when the culprit dies. For a while, the man still listened to his victim, in a meeting room of the Berlin Schlosspark-Klinik. Unobtrusively, he behaved at first, it describes later the police. Theme on this Tuesday night: "fatty liver - (K) a cause for concern?" The lecture of the physician Fritz von Weizsäcker is aimed at laymen. About 20 listeners have come, one has a knife.
Von Weizsäcker dies at the scene. A policeman, who happens to be present, tries to stop the attacker, is seriously injured. Other listeners finally succeed in overpowering the stabber.
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Fritz von Weizsäcker (2nd from left) with sister Beatrice, mother Marianne and then Federal President Joachim Gauck in 2015 in Berlin
The act triggers horror throughout Germany. (Read more about the reactions here.) Not only because von Weizsäcker is a renowned physician, since 2005 chief physician of the gastroenterology department. Not only because the 59-year-old comes from an influential family and his father Richard von Weizsäcker was once President.
According to police, the suspect is 57 years old and comes from Rhineland-Palatinate. The investigators give much more initially not known. According to SPIEGEL-research, however, the perpetrator speaks in the interrogations of a targeted killing. He wanted to take revenge on the family von Weizsäcker.
Richard von Weizsäcker had been responsible as managing director of the chemical company Boehringer Ingelheim in the 1960s for the fact that the company had delivered deadly toxins for the Vietnam War. According to Berlin prosecutors, the suspect is due to an "acute mental illness" to be brought to a clinic.
The quote of the day: "It will never work."
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US President Donald Trump
The sentence comes from one of the many Twitter messages that Donald Trump is currently trying to denounce the impeachment proceedings against him. The Democrats just wanted to hurt his Republicans, says the US president. In fact, Trump is increasingly getting into trouble. (See here a video analysis of my colleague Roland Nelles.) On Tuesday, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman said in Congress. The soldier was in July on the phone call connected, in which Trump is said to have urged the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj election campaign assistance. On Wednesday, the US Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, was summoned to the Intelligence Committee. He, too, was a heavy burden on Trump. (You can find out more about the backgrounds here.)
News: What you need to know today
- Dietmar Woidke has once again been elected Prime Minister in Brandenburg: the SPD politician will lead a Kenya coalition with the CDU and Greens in the future.
- Off the coast of Malta, the police arrested a businessman who was involved in the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
- Greece wants to close the largest refugee camps on the islands in the Aegean: 20,000 migrants are to be brought to the mainland. The backgrounds.
- The Ullstein-Verlag pulls back the book of Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam: The British had called the Holocaust as "almost normal event".
- Twitter cautions Boris Johnson's Conservative: During the TV debate between British Prime Minister and opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, the Tories disguised their account as an independent fact check page.
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Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn at the TV duel
Opinion: The most discussed comments and interviews
"My wife vehemently rejects a quota": Prior to the CDU party congress, Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff speaks out against a quota of women for his party. Opening attempts to the AfD he gives a rejection. The interview.
"Can you understand me?" 15 percent of the world's people are hard of hearing. Most do not notice that themselves. With Harald Schmidt's help you can find out if you belong. Go to the video column here.
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Stories: The most read texts at SPIEGEL +
The Freischwimmer: Associations earn billions with professional athletes, which does not matter very much. A group of world-class swimmers struggles and has set up its own league. The text by Thilo Neumann can be found here.
"The more you yield to rioters, the more defiant they become": The politician close to Beijing, Regina Ip, is at the same time an ally and competitor of Hong Kong's head of government, Carrie Lam. In an interview with my colleague Bernhard Zand she talks about violence in the city.
My evening: the recommendations for your end of workday
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Leonard Cohen
What you might hear: "Thanks for the Dance" - once again the voice of Leonard Cohen can be heard on this album. The songwriter had sung the nine lyrics before he died in 2016. His son Adam set it to music. Although Cohen had long been aware of his fate during the recording, "no bitterness or even morbidity creeps into these verses," writes my colleague Andreas Borcholte. Read the review here.
I wish you a nice finishing time.
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Kevin Hagen from the Daily Team
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