the eastern banks of the vera these goes into your engine on the western banks out and bush lie in hessen the two towns separated only by the river. with no end up until nine hundred eighty nine we were only able to see it never visit it it's still a special thing for me to cross this former border. but i don't think i mean still rangy and now i think i'm in a place that was once closed off to me i always wanted to see it with an a for me. goose bush was in east germany it was impossible to just cross the river the death strip ran between the two towns. where. in the past this was all barren to ensure visibility now everything's been left to nature the vegetation has developed naturally nature has reclaimed what man took from it. how guys in whose family he came from goes bush live in fear in jail they had a large home and a nursery that. that's been segmented this is a photo of my grandparents my aunts and my father. they left east germany together in one nine hundred fifty two. they owned land here in altoona bushland so they were allowed to cross into the west to cultivate their fields

jack a movie is the prince is his brother he's known to police as a suspect in eight burglary cases in hessen. from germany the german cops think that you're responsible for many crimes in germany. no comment and so the. joy of the piece or not but nobody. would have thought she supposed to be the best is she the best one for me. but it's not supposed to mean there's no one here. she supposed be very good breaking into homes this is a bit over two grueling you know i'm not saying anything we're not going to comment . musharraf in which the jitters about us going to the start. become so many suspected criminals are at large in croatia even within the e.u. investigations across borders are complex on their home turf the plane keeps a low profile according to a local policeman who wants to remain anonymous was always just to go to. in all honesty i see these houses i see what's happening. but unless a crime is committed to croatia there is nothing i can do but exodus and when you know that i can only have someone put under observation if i have a suspicion they are perpetrating a crime on the. d

susanna's body was found in hessen on wednesday by this time the murder suspect b. was no longer in germany he and his family flew back to iraq and it is there that he was arrested friday morning. the suspected murderer. was arrested tonight eight twenty eighteen at two am by kurdish security authorities in northern iraq at the request of the german federal police work of the split. the case has inflamed the debate regarding germany's handling of refugees levy was denied asylum one and a half years ago he had lodged an appeal which had not yet been processed. psyched anguish this shows once again that rejected asylum seekers must be sent home urgently every individual who is required to leave but especially criminals. german police are investigating the murder of susanna politicians are debating how to get rejected asylum applicants to leave germany more quickly. let's get more on the story from the date of the political correspondents are many young welcomes partly early baby was known to police so how was he able to leave the country. yeah one answer phil is quite

just refused to answer any questions and to explain his role there plus this office in the state of hessen has now decided that they're going to put the files away for one hundred twenty years so we will not know in our lifetime what about if there was a a larger broader network supporting the n.s.u. what are authorities doing to investigate that well lots of people are saying this medicine reese can't have happened without a broader network this cons of been done by these seven people who are now essentially known to be the official members and accomplices of the and as you so lots of people are saying this murder spree happened nationwide who serves those victims that is something that we don't know who helped them organize all the transport that is another thing there are a lot of things that are unanswered and mackel actually the federal chancellor she promised that in two thousand and twelve she said to the relatives we'll make sure that you'll get all the answers and now of course the relatives said after the verdict this is not the answers we were looking for but again you have to s

you just pick out this one question of this liaison officer from the regional office in the state of hessen he was actually on the ground when the owner of an internet cafe was murdered by the and this you and he was questioned during this trial for thirty years for thirty days and didn't given as to what was his role who had sent him that why was he there and then the office actually decided to lock away his files all those five hundred twenty is what about the question of about this broader network that has possibly supported the n.s.u. families of the victims want answers there are going to investigate well this is something that all the relatives and all the lawyers said yesterday this can only be the end of this trial but this can't be the end of the investigation into this mud the street murder spree it happened nationwide there are a lot of unanswered questions why did they get their cars from how did they manage to pick their victims how did they manage to do it so fast and there are a lot of people doubting that only seven people were involved in this and actually the federal prose

conservative party is not going to do well in bavaria it's not going to do well in heston the state of hessen has lection in two weeks and pressure will mount for angela merkel to accelerate her or her period of succession to move forward the party congress in december certainly some challenges but you know what i'm going to back always surprises people see it as such a scrap and survivor thing she was comes up trumps and somehow that's you know what is this the west is going to leave i completely agree i think mca has caused a lot of this by the vacuum that she left over the past two years we've seen extreme needed to lead a shift from which has left a lot of room for other people to do this and about that. i think if she should she manage to reinvent herself and come up with a story for germany that makes sense to people that explains to them how she sees the country. future including the million refugees that are living here then she may pull it off if she doesn't i think she'd better start thinking about her succession she's looking for a legacy already could the legacy be coming out of t

the regional elections in hessen are in two weeks merkel's creaking coalition will remain for that long but the softening of support for germany's formerly strong conservatives is likely to feed the growth of other political forces. for more now let's bring in our political chief correspondent michelle but is reporting for us in munich michelle and this has been an earthquake in bavarian politics why how are people reacting to this way you are. i'm actually here at the election party of this is too conservative party that's the sister party of anger marco c.d.u. and here there was a sense of there was a political earthquake it was predicted but it didn't get as bad as they had feared and that really is the key issue for the see is you hear that they have been polling down the rounds thirty three percent and upwards of thirty five percent it's a long way down from so forty seven point seven last time there's a recognition that they were able to reach voters but also there's a sense that it's can't be their responsibility alone that lynn is partly to blame for this when they say berlin th

the regional elections in hessen are in two weeks merkel's creaking coalition will remain for that long but the softening of support for germany's formerly strong conservatives is likely to feed the growth of other political forces and for more let's bring in dave used chief political editor mckayla kapoor who is standing by in the very in parliament so what are the reactions on the ground there. well the reactions of the conservatives see if you are of course this is not a very good result for them but it's not as bad as many had feared because the polls had predicted that they might get us the thirty three percent which would have already raised a lot more questions about who should be leading this party in the future is that they feel they got away with a block i've read here at the same time there's a recognition that there is a very different political landscape here and i just get the chance to talk so much they'd be bad news the central c.s.u. figure him very but also the leader of the european people's party about what the impact in berlin will be. how much this damage german ch

i the regional elections in hessen are in two weeks merkel's creaking coalition will remain for that long but the softening of support for germany's formerly strong conservatives is likely to feed the growth of other political forces. all right for more on this i'm joined by our political correspondent kate brady kate it's great having ensued you did this come as a shock for these traditional massive it really wasn't quite as much of a surprise as you might first think of course we've had a lot of opinion polls ahead of these elections and this really reflects what is an ongoing trend across germany and also in neighboring e.u. countries european countries at the moment and that is the erosion of mainstream parties and we're seeing both on a federal level and down in bavaria tonight that the support for the traditional main parties or the conservatives in the social democrats is really nose diving and instead we're seeing this fragmentation of germany's political landscape and we've seen people moving to what really are in the biggest and the fringes of germany's political spectrum s

bracing for yet more punishment at the ballot box this weekend and that's when voters and the state of hessen whose capitol is frankfort elect a new legislature big losses a full cost of what michael c.d.u. and the opposition social democrats do weeks ago meccas bavarian and i as a c.s.u. slumped to their worst election result in decades. frankfurt germany financial hope an economic powerhouse and the biggest city in has the southwestern german state governed by angler merkel's conservative c.d.u. and the green party after twenty years in power the conservatives are bracing for huge losses as has heads to the polls. but this time around the stacie election isn't only about local politics how hesse's four million voters cast their ballots on sunday could have huge repercussions in berlin not least of all for german chancellor angela merkel despite projecting an image of stability on the campaign trail and has a marker has every reason to be concerned her conservatives are at a record low the worst case scenario would be if her close ally and has a say premier focal bouvier what pushed out of o

shaky coalition government is reeling from another election blow today after a vote in the state of hessen conservatives were hammered in the election there they've only just managed to cling on to power while merkel's national coalition partners of social democrats were handed their worst ever result in the state. it's been a sobering night for chancellor merkel's christian democrats and the has the state capital the c.d.u. premier can remain in office but no one is calling this result a success and the disappointment is even greater among the social democrats this is the s.p.d. as worst result in has the state elections. out of nearly four and a half million voters and has about sixty eight percent cast their ballots the results underscore the flagging support for chancellor merkel's coalition government in berlin with punishment for both the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. . party leaders in berlin are now ready to change course. to introduce the politics at the federal level contributed a lot to our losses and has a and there are two reasons for that firstly something has to change in the. we ha

completely self-absorbed as riven by internal divisions and the voters in bavaria and in the state of hessen have sent a very clear message saying they're sick of the divisions and just just to be clear chancellor merkel is stepping down as party leader in december and the chancellor in twenty twenty one so we'll still see a bit of a yes or less she gets overtaken by events as we all must. so we're looking at a sea change that in german politics and of a merkel era absolutely it is a historic moment there's no question whatsoever she was the first woman to head a major party she has headed the c.d.u. for eighteen years she's been governing for over ten years she is a very very important figure in german politics the big question for the last six months has basically been is she going to go as a victim of a disorderly messy transition or is she going to take her own fate and thereby also her legacy into her own hands and leave in an orderly fashion and with dignity certainly this indicates the latter so that's one aspect what follows this and of course is change poses the implicit question wi

or would get the green president of hessen. this would be a major crisis this way it was not a very nice even though but you could go more or less business as usual if you didn't do this and one of. us to consider what the chancellor said twenty years ago back in the year one thousand nine hundred eighty eight she was interviewed in a book about power in politics i want you to take a look here's a photo of miracle from one thousand nine hundred eighty eight this is before she took over the leadership of the c.d.u. and she was asked what dreams do you still have beyond politics and her answer was well someday i'd like to find the right point in time to get out of politics now that's much harder than i ever could have imagined but i don't want to end up a half dead wreck when i leave let me ask you mr cruz or the leaders of the other parties in this country they would say that she is leaving much of the country in a wreck. no suddenly not i mean look in the vault we do have. a strange president in the us. we did have a long time

germany people have been both shocked and puzzled by the death of a popular politician in the state of hessen walter luke was found dead from a single bullet in the head last week he was a leading advocate for refugees migrants a stance that had brought him death threats over the past few days disturbing comments gloating over his death have surfaced online a reporter travel to his hometown of is to find out more. it was a shock to the had and very close friends here in front of his house c.d.u. politician by 10 look was found by a family member sunday morning since his death no clues have a much about the perpetrator or the pup the trade ins and habitants of his home village east i was shocked because it's a very difficult situation for the time and for me to. he had his own views views that you could run up against that you could debate with him. at a community meeting in 2015 look this stood up for refugees telling those who disagreed that. you have to stand up for these values whoever doesn't represent them can leave the country at any point. or d.n.c. members from the far right where i w

it's gotten all its money back the last instalment interestingly enough just recently and the state of hessen in which we sit here in frankfurt is also interested in supplying additional funds to conjure a figure of german government federal government in berlin steps and after all is based here in frankfurt well the bridging loan being being just a bridging loan who could be interested in buying called or could they go on their own. well theoretically they could go on on their own they're a huge airline really and in contrast to many in the industry even in contrast to some of the so-called premium airlines or national carriers it's making a profit it's and it's been profitable for years used to be a part of lufthansa lufthansa sold it contra when its own way slipped under the wings of thomas cook and it's got $7000000.00 passengers per annum serving $75.00 destinations thousands of staff and it wouldn't really need an investor but i think thomas cook has to let it go in some way and the company that the that or the creditors will want money from the sale of a condo or so someone will snap i

yesterday in the town of him though there was an incident yesterday in the town of lim book in the state of hessen where a man took a truck and crashed a truck into a series of cars in limbo and yesterday the whole discussion was about the motive of that particular incident whether it could have been a terror attack whether they could have been other motives we're still we still don't know what the confirmed motive behind that incident could have been. what we know is that that incident yesterday and this incident today do add to a sense of insecurity that germans may be feeling at least compared to previous months or weeks when that seemed to have been more relaxed although it is also important to stress that authorities had been on alert they. arnold if you ask authorities if you interview authorities they will always say that they're still investigating they're looking at possible security risks in germany and that they're always on alert but if you look at the specific mood that say a few weeks ago people were not necessarily speaking a lot about security in germany there were other topics on

the soccer federation of hessen has only registered 2 incidents of anti-semitism in the last season but alan meyer believes that many cases go unreported he wants action. information on anti-semitic incidents to be properly gathered and for there to be an appropriate response at the same time we need to build support structures for these associations and sports clubs through a commissioner of anti-semitism in sports. the soccer association is open to these ideas even as a lot is already being done to solve the problem instead of just using punishment it also teaches german jewish history. already tackling this problem for. offenders about the history and the extent of the problem. frank educational center for example in order to get in the about the past. back to the e.u.'s team has ended their game and they won $10.00 to $1.00 the campaign against anti semitism however will continue into overtime. the champions league returns tonight with germany's very minute travelling to greece to play olympiacos byron of injury problems after a $22.00 draw at augsburg in the bundesliga last weekend

i'm visiting the xcel shooting club in hessen where 14 year old calin is training with around 1400000 members the german shooting federation is one of the largest german sports associations kalin west stiff shooting closed to give her a more stable posture. unlike in switzerland young people here shoot only with air rifles. there's a special reason why catalin took up this hobby 2 years ago she was struggling with her concentration and her mother had the idea to register her with the rifle club she'd heard that shooting can have a therapeutic effect and boost attention span since then carolyn has been training at least twice a week a 2 hour session not only includes shooting but also progressive muscle relaxation . so i still remember what you were lying 2 years ago the vast adama's. well i was still very unfocused and didn't have that much stamina and stuff. on both k. and what happens with how do you feel now compared to then. and i've become much better at school i'm getting much better grades and can definitely concentrate well in class. and you'd say that's related to those force

here today we saw some of that shock in the state legislature the part of my building for the state of hessen there rebecca the police have been. someone reticent to release a lot of details or confirm very much right now but can you fill us in on some other information that the police have been giving us. sure absolutely so so far what the police have confirmed is that there are 11 fatalities in the situation 9 of the people who died died due to that they sustained during the shooting at the shisha bars the other 2 bodies that were found one was of the suspected gunmen and the other one was a another body that was also found in the same home where the gunman live now german public broadcasters are reporting and local public broadcaster here. they're also reporting that. that 2nd body likely is the suspected shooter's mother police have not confirmed that yet but but sort of more details are starting to slightly emerge from from sources that are speaking as well to the local media so what we know is that 11 people have died 9 people in the shooting itself here between between this she. as wel

young let's pick up this conversation 1st we're going to take a listen to what the state premier of hessen has been staying saying. the initial evaluation of the alleged perpetrators internet page points to a xena phobic motive. which i strongly condemn this act it is an attack on our free and peaceful society and as far as we know the suspect was neither known to the state intelligence office as is enough. nor did he have a police record. but it's sure that wasn't the state from here that was the interior minister picked a boy of has and based on what you heard right there. was this attack a lone wolf attack or was the individual involved part of a larger network. definitely part of a larger network against me again the evidence uncovered shows that he definitely had an online life where his motives where his far right for someone could express itself who gather support potentially financial support where he could exchange with people supporting his views perhaps in terms of logistics however such an attack carried out or perhaps even the hinting to where it could get a weapon again this

a small city in the state of hessen in the heart of germany.

president of a district council in germany central state of hessen the classic local politician gunned down in front of his house it's believed to be the 1st murder of a politician by the far right in federal germany since the founding of the state after world war 2. was an outspoken advocate of germany taking in and integrating refugees and asylum seekers at a town hall meeting in the autumn of 2015 lucas spoke his mind and was booed the soviet you have to stand up for the values you believe in and those who don't share those values can leave this country at any time. you question. also in attendance were volunteer luca's suspected killers both men had long been active in far right circles and had criminal records but stefan he appeared to have broken with his militant past police had stopped tracking his activities mark his age is accused of brooke hearing the murder weapon a 38 caliber rowsley revolver it can be purchased online as long as the official regulations are fulfilled the authorities now admit to having made mistakes. the killing wasn't only met with shock and dismay in fa

possibly covering up that crime or that alleged crime just as this case is going on in the state of hessen there's a massive scandal going on where with potential links in the police there to the far right where as almost 30 people in 8 different states in germany have received threatening letters with a signature n.s.u. 2.0 s. he was of course reference to the national nash. a socialist underground a state of murders of far right murders against people with with foreign roots back in the early 2000 went for a long time and investigated and on and yeah unsolved and it was really quite disturbing. did a beautiful william know a blue cross thank you. well that's it that's the day is that nearly done the conversation that continues online joined us on twitter. and you saw him follow me out to phil go as watching a good. thing . in a globalized world. where everything is connected. all it takes is a scorched earth to set things in motion. local hero show how their ideas can change the world. 3000. next on d.w. . eco africa. they have a bad reputation but they play a key role in the ecosystem.