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Comment: The country hold together

The murders of Munich shake Germany. If death can live next door, there is a growing uncertainty. The challenge to the policy to keep the country together, will be larger, says Christoph Strack.

The murder of nine people shocked Germany. There are horror, questions, and Yes, even anger and helplessness. Munich, started in a summer weekend, between the beer garden, the Isar and the Alps – since the terrorist broke into the Idyll. And in the Morning the city awakes, the country is awakening from a nightmare. Whether the terrorist …? Fact A just adult German-Iranians wipe out many lives and hurt other people, and not only the physically injured, the fight of their lives, and hopefully come through. He was hurt far more people in your collateral, in your Psyche.

The Terror is getting closer – so political is voice control, last week. First there was the terrible massacre of at least 84 dead in the South of France, nice, then the assassination of a young refugee on a train at Würzburg, the injured several Chinese tourists seriously.

Sadness, Anger, Pride

By now, the country is insecure. After the fact, in Munich, there was a lot of speculation: now Comes the Islamist Terror in the heart of a German metropolis? Or there are just five years after the nationalistically motivated massacre on the Norwegian island of Utoya – radical right-wing background to this fact? And then there is an 18-Year-old who still goes to school. Rather, the reference is to come to the School massacres that shook Germany in the past 15 years. And, in Winnenden in 2009, the question: how did a young man get the gun?

Christoph Strack

The mood in Munich and Germany seems to be the day after, marked by the grief, anger and, Yes, quiet Pride. Grief and anger about the victims and the senselessness of the act. Proud of the solidarity and willingness to help of the Munich-based, open doors, and houses. And the satisfaction and Pride over the security forces in the Bavarian capital, after all, what you know, engaged and decisively acted, and clearly and openly communicated. That was the answer to nervousness and medial Pressure on the panic of the network. 2300 forces came from various Parts of the country, and also from neighbouring Austria and no one of them knew at the beginning of the use, what the job means to him personally.

Vibration and decisiveness?

And yet, anxious thoughts after this senseless act, how Much hold this German company? What is the new voltage is in each new attack, the – shaken by a rampage of Terror of a network – Germany. A society that insure against everything, and with insecurity so bad. The felt, each, of the so-called social media or Online commentary columns las. Not a little of what has been written, remains untold. It is also the victim of taunts.

Before midnight, said – in front of cameras – US President Barack Obama to Munich, and many politicians from the international policy followed. There were words of sympathy and offers of support. Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, followed on Saturday at noon.

The policy needs to take the uncertainty and division of the society seriously, more seriously than in the past. The country is facing a major challenge – social cohesion, resolve, and sanity of the authorities, to guide force of the policy. But there is also honesty in dealing with growing problems and needs. Democracy lives from a vibrant civil society, this society lives from cohesion and also from the sincere to the dispute, from the debate, the Withstand voltages. With Munich shows, or how large the task will be not only political camp, but a country to keep together. It is just beginning.

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