After Solingen, many things are different. Terrorism is frightening. But the consequences for politics are also serious.
The assassin’s knife could have hit his sister. She was at the folk festival celebrating Solingen’s 650th anniversary with a neighbor. The neighbor is now dead, says Thomas, a man in his mid-fifties from the town in the Bergisches Land. The neighbor’s husband is in the hospital, in an artificial coma. The murderer always aimed for the neck, wielded the blade with force, and killed indiscriminately. And his sister? “At the moment the man stabbed her, she was somewhere else, in the toilet, getting drinks, I don’t know.” She was lucky, anyway. Good luck.
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I have been working in the news industry for over 6 years, first as a reporter and now as an editor. I have covered politics extensively, and my work has appeared in major newspapers and online news outlets around the world. In addition to my writing, I also contribute regularly to 24 Hours World.