Good evening,


the day actually offered enough material for tomorrow's newspaper edition, before a World War II bomb discovered on a construction site kept Frankfurt's Nordend in suspense in the late afternoon.

Helmut Schwan

Head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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    For example, a story reads like a crime thriller, and in some ways it is too. “The trail leads to the sawmills,” headlines Rainer Schulze about his story. It is about the Hessian forest, storms, drought and bark beetles. Of all the wood that has fallen victim to all of this in recent years. If you go for a walk you will see the many stacks along the way. So there should actually be a glut of wood.

    But because of: the building material is scarce and expensive than ever.

    Carpenters hardly know where to get the slats for their roof trusses from.

    Property developers are also sounding the alarm, because there is a lack of steel and insulation.

    As our specialist editor found out, this is due to the building boom in Germany and the world market: In America and China, higher prices are paid for wood.

    Many trunks and boards from German forests are shipped overseas in containers.

    Research in the Darknet

    In a real criminal case, the supermarket chain Tegut from Fulda was inflicted great damage. In any case, immaterial, material cannot yet be assessed. To research how hackers got into Tegut's computers, Inga Janovic penetrated the Darknet, that part of the Internet where the bad guys are supposedly safe from the police. Although this is no longer entirely true, it still offers criminals too much protection. Their booty at Tegut was large: photos from the warehouse, guidelines for application procedures and annual interviews, minutes of exams, sales calculations, budget calculations, agreements with the online retailer Amazon, farewell certificates from former employees. Let's see what Tegut is still in bloom.

    The coalition negotiations in Frankfurt also have a touch of Darknet. In the meantime, appearances are being kept with great difficulty, everything is going according to plan in the talks between the Greens, SPD, FDP and Volt. As is almost always the case when trying to keep everything highly confidential, information leaks through. Our “Roman team” has found out that at least there is still confidence that we will soon be able to present solutions to all questions relating to personnel and content as well as the coalition agreement. The work, on the basis of which Frankfurt is to be ecologically converted, comprises more than 200 pages. It is only about a few headings, they say.

    And in addition, the detonation of a World War II bomb discovered in the afternoon in Frankfurt for the evacuation of large parts of the Norderend required +++ after the break-in in the wine cellar of the Hotel Kronenschlösschen in the Rheingau, the company's insurance company filed a criminal complaint against the owner.

    The suspicion: insurance fraud.

    The restaurateur is indignant.

    +++ it is still unclear whether pupils from the age of 12 in Hesse can actually be vaccinated before the holidays +++ Frankfurt writers have presented a “pandemic anthology.

    Take care of yourself

    Yours Helmut Schwan

    The

    weather

    for

    Thursday

    After another rainy night, the region gets a respite, called "intermediate high influence".

    However, the sun and dense clouds continue to alternate, on the Rhine it should be almost 20 degrees.

    Have

    your

    birthday

    on

    Thursday:

    Carl von Boehm-Bezing

    , Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Free German Hochstift, Frankfurt (81);


    Vollrad Kutscher

    , freelance artist and curator, Frankfurt (76);


    Achim Greser

    , cartoonist (60) living in Aschaffenburg;


    Wolfgang Strengmann-Kuhn

    (The Greens), Member of the German Bundestag, Frankfurt (57).