Why Liverpool will not split this misfortune either

Liverpool of all people. A city like an exuberant hug. A metropolis that is closer to Ireland than England, geographically and human. As usual, the football in the blood has Madrid or Rio, and the music anyway. That this city drove into the happy crowd to shed blood on the day, and of all things, when the whole city celebrated her team’s success in red, this city hits the mark. The fact that the perpetrator was one of them, a “scouser”, as they say here on the Mersey River, makes the crime even more incomprehensible.

So far, little is known about the perpetrator and his motivation, except that the police exclude a terrorist attack. A white man at the age of 53 was arrested, it was said shortly after the attack that he was the suspected driver. Right -wing extremists want to put capital out of the tragedy, shortly after the attack, spread rumors on the Internet that the police are hiding who the real perpetrator was. A white mid -fifties from the area does not fit into the concept of all those who abuse every act, every event for their polarizing xenophobic ideologies.

Almost a year ago, these keyboard fighters managed to transform an attack near the nationwide riots. In July, a 17-year-old in the seaside resort of Southport, who belongs to the Liverpool area for many, stabbed three little girls and injured eight more. Consciously scattered incorrect information about the origin and religion of the perpetrator, the information vacuum that left the police and legal regulations filled within a few hours. This time, too, this time the rapid reaction of the police on the identity of the perpetrator.

In any case, the right -wing radical populists are at the wrong address for many in Liverpool. Liverpool is as well as immigrant city. Lennon, McCartney, all Irish names, here they came and went, always. The city of seafarers, shipbuilders and dealers in the 18th century with the slave trade was briefly rich, today the “International Slavery Museum” in the Liverpool Docks is reminiscent of this shameful episode.

Liverpool exported and exported its culture all over the world – with the Beatles, Gerry and the Pacemakers, after them Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Elvis Costello, The Zutons, The La’s – the list is long. The Liverpool acting talent Stephen Graham, known from the Netflix World Success “Adolescence”, discovered and promoted Jodie Comer, in turn, and famous “Killing Eve” since the world success. Both, although master in imitating even adventurous dialects, never took off their melodic “scouse” accent. Such affecting would be frowned upon in Liverpool.

In Liverpool, the comedian once said, an unwritten law said that at least one of the family must have a job for which he needed a delivery van. In the heart, a scouser always remains a member of the working class, whether he works in Tech, the media or even the top prosecutor – or, the other extreme, how many in the region is long -term unemployed. Today Liverpool grew up in poverty. That too is Liverpool. Crime in the outskirts is high, as in the neighboring Manchester. Liverpool connects a friendly rivalry with the Liverpool, but the Liverpools undoubtedly take their hard fate with more humor than the more fierce “mancunians”. The world rarely experienced a happier, more unadorned ESC than in Liverpool two years ago. At that time, the city organized him in a representation of the Ukraine attacked by Russia, the British had only ranked second in the competition.

“Don’t mess with scousers!” -“Do not put yourself on with Liverpoolers!”, They wrote yesterday on social media, where videos ran from the fans who surrounded the car to force it to stop without knowing whether there might be a suicide assassin with explosive vest. Rupert Murdoch and one of his most successful newspapers, the revolver leaf “The Sun”, once learned that Liverpool did not feel unpunished. In 1989, after the tragedy in the Hillsborough football stadium in Sheffield, the newspaper spread lies and aggressive anti-fan rhetoric for years to cover up the guilt of the police at the disaster it caused, in which 96 Liverpool fans had lost their lives and had been injured many hundreds. With a large-scale campaign for the boycott of the newspaper, angry fans and members of the Hillsborough victims ensured that the “Sun” expenses in Liverpool are still in vain in Liverpool.

The absence of the “Sun”, in turn, could have contributed to the fact that 58 percent voted for the whereabouts of Great Britain in the EU at the Brexit referendum in June 2016, while comparable large cities like Sunderland Brexit majorities of more than 60 percent. At least that is what academics believe. later showed that with the boycott of the European anti-European “Sun” after 1989, a gradual conversion of the population of Liverpool from EU opponents to latent supporters of the merchant block.

Perhaps the Liverpoolers simply have a well-functioning bullshit detector. Boris Johnson, then editor-in-chief of the conservative magazine “The Spectator”, wrote in 2004, alluding to Hillsborough-Hunglück, the city of Liverpool “Suhle in its sacrificial status”. The Liverpoolers never forgive him. With Jürgen Klopp, on the other hand, they put a German into the heart that could take on the passion, energy and humor of the scousers. He was a manager of Liverpool for nine years, saw Premier Boris Johnson coming and walking in the time, and less than two years stayed in office. In Liverpool you had chosen Klopp as Johnson’s successor, that would have been possible, no question.

“You’ll Never Walk Alone”, “You never go alone” has been the hymn of Liverpool FC since the Hillsborough disaster. In Liverpool you will also process the crime on Monday. As always together.