I see, it is still a topic here, so I would like to add a few final thoughts about such senseless crimes because I also talked about this and other crimes yesterday with my hairdresser who emigrated from Odessa (Ukraine) to Germany.
She said that we in our German and French nations are almost too human in her opinion with such people because there is right now also a legal trial going on in the German city of Trier against the amok-driver who killed 5 persons on 1st December 2020 and in Paris, there is right now the legal proceeding against the supporters and on terrorist of them who killed so many persons in the "Bataclan"-Music-Event.
She thought, in Russia or in Ukraine, the policemen there would probably not have arrested this driver or the killer of the student in Idar-Oberstein or any of those terrorists in Paris, they would probably have killed them "by accident" or "on their flight".
Now, they would live a nice long life in a comfortable Western prison and have no problems.
I replied: "I know what you mean, but on the other hand, in our democracies, the people have the right to know everything which happened on those terrible days and if you hear in these legal proceedings the stories of the policemen and the witnesses, you will hear stories of true heroisms and really human helpers of all races and ages and this can help the survivors and all witnesses and all the audience to relieve the pain - and this can give you again a little hope for the future because without hope, you cannot really live or survive in this world."
She nodded and said: "Yes, this is also right and correct, but the expenditure for this kind of justice is very high."
And here, she was right, too, because I have seen unintentionally the expenditure for the legal proceeding against the amok driver in Trier. There were hundreds of witnesses and many of them will be interviewed by the court judges.
I was driving a few days ago in a slow city bus right in front of the court building of Trier. My bus was slowed down by policemen in order to let the public audience cross the street to the building before the proceedings started and I had never seen before so much people in front of this building: Heavily armed policemen everywhere, journalists with their TV broadcast vans, interested public inhabitants of Trier, witnesses already with tears in their eyes and talking to them persons with special vests on which you could read "Seelsorger" (= "Carers for Soul" = psychologists and sometimes priests who try to help persons in psychological crises) and even I thought:
Incredible and all this for the crime of one mad person who killed 5 innocent persons and hurt dozens more in an amok drive!
But then I thought again: "In spite of all the costs, it is worth it, when the relatives and the witnesses can find relief and their peace again."
And in Paris, everything is even a hundred times bigger and everything was much, much worse than in Trier and there, too, it is worth it when a democracy can show its power in a legal proceeding and justice will be done according to the laws of our states. And you will hear everywhere the stories of real human heroes who helped their fellow human beings against the madness and this is worth all the expenditures because - as I said - it gives you hope:
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A trial on the 2015 Paris terror attacks is getting underway. Although it is likely to run over many months and most of the defendants won't be there, it may help survivors to better live with the trauma.
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The southwestern German city of Trier is still reeling a day after a car was driven into a pedestrian zone, killing five people. One of the country's top clerics has offered his condolences.
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