A day ago....I chatted over the subway murder in Hamburg. The basic story....refugee from Kenya just up and grabs the hand of a Iranian 18 year old girl, and yanks her with him....in front of a oncoming train...both dead.
Most locals see the guy as a nutcase (paranoid schizophrenia)....mostly the end of the story.
This AM....someone dug into the personal details of the guy. His birthday? 1 January 2000. Odd detail.
Was this an actual birth date (conclusively proven during registration)....well...that's not really proven.
In the reality of Germany society....if you don't have a birth certificate or state-produced identification document....you get assigned the first day of the birth year is selected as a "substitute date."
Did the German authorities go into detail about his situation and really vet the guy? Unknown.
But there's this odd detail about this guy....he said he couldn't go back because it was too dangerous for him. Kenya is considered politically stable, predominantly Christian, and popular among Germans.
Roughly 80,000 Germans frequent Kenya yearly. It's fairly safe...maybe every three years....you have a lion-attack on some tourist, or some bus flips over at a curve.
So you end up wondering....was the guy 25 years old....might he have been 30 or 40 years old? Was his story mostly faked-up and some German bureaucratic official swamped with people and just thought....'what-the-hell', and signed off?
The real question? How many folks exist in the German 'book'....with 1 January as their birthdate? If your answer (out of 84-million)....is around 1-million....folks might start to question a lot of things.
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