Opfer zweiter Klasse: Kein Politiker spricht über Jana L. und Kevin S., die eigentlichen Halle-Opfer › Jouwatch
Second class victims: no politician mentions Jana L. und Kevin S., the real victims of Halle
Halle/Saale - At all times, staged expressions of condolence from politicians have been at the service of the reasons of state. "State mourning" was exploited according to opportunism, which fits in well with the contemporary ideal.
After Halle, it's the same again: the German victims Jana L. and Kevin S. don't fit into the desired sacrificial pattern, so no politician mourns them.
Concern is always a matter for politicians when the victims fit into the concept. As martyrs, the following are particularly well suited nowadays: Muslim attack victims (if the perpetrators are not Muslims themselves), Jewish attack victims (if the perpetrators are not Muslims), Turks and German Turks (if the perpetrators are not Turks themselves). "Giving the victims a face" this postulate was realized with the Turkish merchants murdered by the "NSU" as well as with the attack victims of Christchurch.
In contrast, in the case of bio-German collateral damage to the welcome culture, which has been present here for some time, the reluctance of top German politicians to make funeral gestures is conspicuous - and has long been notorious. Just think of Merkel's embarrassingly narrow-lipped statements about the attack on Berlin's Breitscheidplatz, or just now again, after Limburg. But wait a moment:
there was also a chance for adequate public appreciation for German victims - if the perpetrator was right-wing extremist; with such killers even Germans can be mourned. This would probably also have been the case with the attack in Halle, where two completely uninvolved Germans were the (fortunately only) victims of a hateful madman. But because they lost their lives somewhere between the synagogue and the kebab shop, especially critical hotspots of the dark German danger zone, they were the very first to be forgotten.
Certainly, the perpetrator wanted to kill Jews above all, and if chance and a partially defective weapon had not prevented him from doing so, we would have a massacre to lament today.
And yet it remains a mild but undeniable fact that the only two victims were two Germans - and up to this hour no German politician has even uttered a word of remembrance about these two individuals. While Merkel held "remonstrations" in Berlin and soon every minister, every state politician and every second-ranking politician expressed his solidarity with the Jewish community, none of them spoke a word of mourning for Jana L. and Kevin S.; hardly a word of condolence to relatives came from their lips or Twitter channels. Friends, colleagues and relatives of the victims are not heard in the media either. Instead, up to the point of vomiting: Interviews with Michel Friedmann. Interviews with Charlotte Knobloch. All good, all important - but these are not the victims.
Thus the bizarre situation arose that it is now celebrities and a football club of all people who, on their own initiative, keep alive the memory of the true victims of Halle and put them in the public eye: Jana L. was an enthusiastic Schlagerfan, who enthusiastically sought proximity to the artists at countless concerts, wrote to them on the Internet and met them. Many had themselves photographed with her, the photos circulating on Instagram and Facebook now become a valuable memory gallery that also reminds the stars of their encounters with the fun-loving 40-year-old: Andrea Berg, Anna-Carina Woitschak and Stefan Mross, Ella Endlich, ex-"No Angel" Lucy Diakovksa or Sarah Connor - they all sincerely mourn the loss of a true fan and ensure with their public souvenirs that the plan of politics does not work out, that insignificant, because "only" German victims are left to oblivion, in order instead to cultivate other, "more suitable" types of victims.
And Hallescher FC, whose enthusiastic supporter was Kevin S. from Merseburg, showed what true solidarity is: the fan curve of the third-league football team placed a mourning notice, and two big fan clubs of the club, "Liberta Crew" and "Domfalken Merseburg", publicly mourned the 20-year-old man on the net. His mother has had to watch the murder of her own son on video.
Meanwhile, neither the federal government nor Saxony-Anhalt politicians consider it necessary to address the two murdered compatriots. They are far too busy to polish up their own image through phrases of concern and hypocritical solidarity with threatened religious minorities (although one does not necessarily have to exclude the other). And, what is of course much more important than the mourning for Jana L. and Kevin S.: to blame the atrocities committed in Halle on the AfD. Because the rule is: "After the assassination is before the state elections."
BBM
