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Schäuble gets emotional with Markus Lanz - "I think papa is dead"

2020-09-03T14:39:17.001Z


On Wednesday evening, Wolfgang Schäuble was a guest at a special edition of Markus Lanz's talk show. The CDU politician told of the day he was shot twice.


On Wednesday evening, Wolfgang Schäuble was a guest at a special edition of Markus Lanz's talk show.

The CDU politician told of the day he was shot twice.

  • On Wednesday evening,

    Wolfgang Schäuble was

    the only guest at

    Markus Lanz

    .

  • The show got particularly emotional when Schäuble talked about the reason why he is in a

    wheelchair

    today

    .

  • His

    daughter

    said: “I think papa is dead

Hamburg - "Welcome to a special edition by

Markus Lanz

" - with these words the presenter greeted his viewers on Wednesday evening on

ZDF

.

Special edition, since only one guest was invited: Bundestag President

Wolfgang Schäuble

.

Together with the CDU politician, Lanz looked back on 30 years of reunification, spoke about his relationship with former Chancellor

Helmut Kohl

and Chancellor

Angela Merkel

and commented on current political events surrounding the demonstrations at the Reichstag.

It got emotional when Schäuble

told about

the

assassination attempt on him

.

On October 12, 1990, only nine days after German reunification, the then 48-year-old was

shot twice

and seriously injured

at an election campaign event in Oppenau, Baden-Württemberg

.

Schäuble at Markus Lanz: CDU politicians cannot remember the days after the attack

The shooter was mentally ill and was declared incapable of guilt in the subsequent trial.

Schäuble

, then Minister of the Interior, was injured in his spinal cord and jaw and has been paraplegic and

dependent

on a

wheelchair

since the attack

.

Schäuble told the talk show that he still “remembered

the day of the

attack

well”.

He went out "and suddenly it pops." Today he no longer knows what happened in the following five days, his memory was as if erased.

"That's how it's done.

From one second to the next it's a different world, that's human life, ”says Schäuble to Lanz.

Schäuble

reported

calmly

about the day of the attack,

but when he talked about his family it got emotional.

His daughter was at the event and heard the shots at her father.

The then 17-year-old called her mother and said: “I think

papa is dead

.” He only knows the rest from stories, says Schäuble.

But: “This is life.

I was allowed to continue. "

"Markus Lanz": Schäuble finds storming the Reichstag "despicable"

Schäuble

quickly tried to

regain his composure.

“You don't have to exaggerate that,” he said quickly, when asked about his wife and the suffering he and his family had to endure.

He got along well with it.

The

work

“helped him tremendously”, he had worked so much that he sometimes couldn't concentrate enough on rehab, said the now

77-year-old

.

Lanz

then wanted to know from Schäuble whether he had never had a problem with his fate.

Yes, of course, said

Schäuble with a

smile, “but it's no use either.” He is a person who can suppress well.

He had become neither a better nor a worse person.

Lanz

and

Schäuble also

spoke

about the

Corona demonstration

around the Reichstag,

and

in particular the attempted storming of the building was "despicable" for him.

The

Reichstag

was for many a symbol, said Schäuble.

"But for neo-Nazis, you have to think about it: the

Reichstag fire

is the symbol for the destruction of democracy."

Video: Wolfgang Schäuble elected President of the Bundestag

Source: merkur

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