Dear reader,
I was sitting in the car when the news came. We have decided not to take the train on holiday. We had just crossed the Elbe bridge when our phones vibrated. There are push notifications and WhatsApp messages, then the bell rings and a colleague answers. “Someone stabbed people at the main train station.”
That Friday night, May 23, at around 6:15 p.m., I thought about terror. 18 people were injured, some of them life-threatening, but fortunately we managed to save them. But what right-wing agitators wrote minutes later on the Internet, saying that a man with a migrant background was responsible for the crime, was a lie. The perpetrator named Lydia S., a Syrian and Chechen citizen, was able to defeat him.
As of today, almost exactly six months later, Lydia S. enters Hamburg in court. This is not an ordinary process, but is called a security procedure because the 39 year old man is experiencing mental disorders. Lydia S. suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Most likely he had little or no knowledge of what he was doing and was therefore incompetent, as the lawyers said. For cases like this there is a correctional system, a secure clinic at the Asklepios site in Ochsenzoll, not a prison.
To conduct research, I was allowed to accompany patient care there for a longer period of time. I met Man and women who have done unimaginable things like Lydia S., for example, who has killed her child in a fit of madness or the love of her life. They themselves describe it as a veil, a shadow, a nightmare that haunts them forever. With proper treatment, their condition still improves, at least for most of them.
The head doctor told me a sentence that stuck with me at the time: “We are the last line of defense in psychiatry.” This means anyone who gets there should receive proper help sooner. After the attack on the main train station, we can reconstruct that Lydia S. has undergone a dizzying odyssey through various clinics (Z+). He doesn’t want or be able to live anywhere permanently. He was a “revolving door patient”, of which there are probably hundreds in Hamburg (Z+), people who failed the system.
The Senate wants to close this gap with a new psychiatric plan, which my colleague Tom Kroll has analyzed here (Z+). Only a small proportion of all mentally ill people ever commit violence, but the plan must work to avoid acts like what happened at the main train station in the future. That
process against Lydia S. will not be published.
Have a nice day,
Sincerely, Christoph Heinemann
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WHAT’S IMPORTANT TODAY
That Port of Hamburg continuing unexpected rise (Z+). From January to September, 6.3 million standard containers were handled, 8.4 percent more than the previous year, Hamburg Port Marketing said. Maritime trade in Europe and Asia increased, while business with America declined.
The police homicide squad is investigating Gun attack on Eidelstedt. A 24-year-old man was apparently sitting in his car Sunday evening when an unknown person approached and fired at least one shot at him. The man was seriously injured and the shooter fled towards a motorway bridge over the A23.
After full of puzzles Death of a mother in Hamburg and her two children The father also died at a clinic in Istanbul. According to media reports, there have now been eleven arrests made by local authorities. These include company employees who eradicate pests, street food sellers, bakers, and the person in charge of the hotel where the family is spending their holiday. Suspected fatal pesticide or food poisoning.
In short
• This year, the co-production “odyssee.hamburg” will receive a prize of 50,000 euros Barbara Kisseler Theater Prize. The Ernst Deutsch Theatre, Ohnsorg Theatre, and Lichthof Theater jointly won the prize for private theater and independent groups •
Diakonie is calling now Gifts for those in need at Christmas time
on. Warm hats, socks and gloves as well as drugstore vouchers can be sent by post or hand in hand at Königstrasse 54 until December 5 • That traditional Alster fir taken to the Binnenalster in Hamburg and founded. It will be decorated over the next few days and the lights on the pine tree will be turned on on November 26th
TODAY’S TOPIC
“The last few months have been very intense”
Jackson Irvine, captain of FC St. Pauli, appears in one of them “Free Palestine” -Wearing clothes. At the weekend, the left-wing club had to clarify what “is on the left“ method. Read an excerpt of the article by ZEIT:Hamburg author Christoph Twickel here.
When Oke Göttlich stepped up to the microphone at Audimax at the University of Hamburg at the weekend, there was a certain tension in the air. Will there be loud arguments about the current Middle East conflict, accusations of anti-Semitism, mutual insults – or even scandal? Debate ahead of the annual general meeting is heated, and several motions regarding the association’s position on anti-Semitism are up for vote. Among the thousands of people present in the hall, many wore Antifa T-shirts, striped socks and rainbow-colored LGBTQ scarves, as well as hoodies with the words “Against all anti-Semitism.”
Göttlich, the club’s president for eleven years, was the first speaker of the day and started with a report of success: This year they were able to secure relegation in the Bundesliga, they generated sales of more than 100 million euros for the first time, and – more importantly – with the founding of the FCSP cooperative a year ago, now around 22,000 members have taken over the majority at the Millerntor Stadium. “We have accepted the class struggle, on the pitch and in the club structure,” he announced. “Millerntor does not belong to any investor, but to the cooperative members.” He then directly addressed today’s sensitive topics: “We don’t allow ourselves to be pushed or pushed to one side when it comes to difficult topics,” said Göttlich. Humanity is “indivisible.”
A stadium owned by a cooperative, a member-run club for which anti-fascism is mandatory and on match days the club regularly mobilizes for left-wing demonstrations: FC St Pauli is a politically left-wing club. But what is meant by “left” in the Middle East conflict is a question regarding the bitter front that emerged after the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023 and the subsequent war in Gaza.
Why captain Jackson Irvine is the club’s pop star and how FC St. Pauli now wants to clarify their own concept of anti-Semitism, Read more in full version at zeit.de.
SENTENCE
“So basically the bottle is filled twice, the same bottle – and then two vouchers are given out.”
With this and other examples, Anne Brorhilker and the two films “Everything Says?” host tries to make the CumEx network real. In this episode of the podcast, the former prosecutor talks with Jochen Wegener and Christoph Ahmend about criminal men, official culture, and the question of why being an introvert helps him.
THIS MAY INTEREST YOU
The architectural design for the new opera in Hamburg has been selected. But “Does Hamburg need a new opera?” Martina Koeppen (SPD), Marco Hosemann (Die Linke), Frank Schmitz (architectural historian at the University of Hamburg) and Christian Voss (technical director of the Hamburg State Opera) will discuss this topic tonight at the Free Academy of the Arts. Questions such as whether the historic site at Gänsemarkt should be simply abandoned or about the contaminated historic site at Baakenhöft or about the donor’s assets and their taxation practices will be discussed. Florian Zinnecker moderated the event.
“Does Hamburg need a new opera?”November 18, 7pm, Free Arts Academy, Klosterwall 23; Register at info@fadk.de or 040-324632
MY CITY
HAMBURGER SCHNACK
Recently on the S-Bahn. Student: “Wow, today I still have to study mathematics and I don’t have time.” Student: “When are you home?” Student: “5 o’clock.” Student: “And when are you going to sleep?” Student: “11.00.” Student: “Then you have eight hours to study.” Student: “Yes, okay.”
Heard by Walter Stahlschmidt
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