Friday, March 1, 2024

2 March 2024: Five German Stories

 1.   I sat and watched the German weather guys doing a chat over rainfall/snowfall since winter started.  My region (central Germany)?  Around 170-percent of what is considered 'normal'.  Bavaria....particularly around Garmisch-Partenkirchen?  It's around 35-percent of 'normal'....meaning a lot less.  It's just been an unusual weather pattern.  This weekend in Wiesbaden?  Temp on Sunday forecasted at 16 C (61 F).....absolute spring weather. 

2.  What the police say.....four people were killed in Rotenburg (Lower Saxony). One was a kid. Shooter?  German Bundeswehr soldier. After the event....he turned himself in.  Motive unknown. 

3.  Some talk out of the Ukraine from yesterday....they supposedly shot down 3 Russian SU-34 fighter/bombers.

4.  Some chatter started up....that maybe Russia has been listening into conversations within the German Air Force and the Taurus missile stuff. Enough to trigger an investigation. 

5.  You remember the German Wirecard scandal?  This was a payment business....that developed over time to being a money-laundering service.

Well....WELT came up and has said that one of the board members (Marsalek) worked in some capacity for the Russians (hinting it was state intelligence, not the mafia).  Marsalek was the COO of the company toward the end, and has literally disappeared off the face of the Earth.  

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