Good evening,


in Hesse the Abitur exams start again on Wednesday under Corona conditions, in Darmstadt the extension of the route to the Lichtwiese campus is being celebrated and in Frankfurt Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD) is once again making the headlines.


Marie Lisa Kehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Mayor Feldmann receives a visit from the police:

It's a message that quickly gets around the city on Monday.

Police officers are said to have searched the office of Frankfurt Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD).

Or not?

At least Feldmann's spokesman denied this report.

"There was a conversation between the public prosecutor's office and the mayor.

A single police officer was also present.

However, the mayor's office and private rooms were not searched.” It took a lot of time to type these lines.

The e-mail only arrived in the early evening - the request from the editors for a statement from the mayor's office was already hours ago.

The public prosecutor's office responded in the evening with the information that there had indeed been a search warrant.

However, the actual search act was saved after Feldmann admitted in an interview that the documents he was looking for existed.

According to a spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office, the use of the mayor's office is related to the charge of suspected acceptance of benefits against Feldmann.

The indictment is currently with a commercial criminal division of the district court, which is responsible for corruption proceedings.

The judges are currently examining what the public prosecutor's office has compiled in the so-called interim proceedings and will then decide on admission and the opening of the main proceedings.

According to the public prosecutor's office, it is quite common in an interim procedure for further witnesses to be heard and for searches to be requested if new findings emerge.

It could be years before a final judgment is reached.

Because it is likely that the losing party will appeal – and Feldmann could remain in office as elected mayor until then.

FAZ editor Carsten Knop demands in his comment: "The parties in Römer owe it to the city, but also to themselves, to counter this spectacle with something that proves their ability to act.

That can only be a vote that is as unanimous as possible.”

Abitur exams start on Wednesday:

The question must be allowed: Who needs a few drops of valerian right now?

Parents of high school graduates or the examinees?

The first Abitur exams will be written in Hesse on Wednesday.

In Hesse, around 20,000 schoolchildren begin their state Abitur with exams in German.

In many households, everyday life has been upside down for a few weeks.

As is well known, a corona infection is always inconvenient.

But so close to the important exams, the fear of falling ill with Corona and having to be in quarantine seems great.

Every corona smear becomes a nail-biter.

The examination phase runs until May 11th.

Until then, many families try to keep the risk of a possible corona infection for the examinees as low as possible.

But don't worry: rewrite dates have already been set.

And because the high school graduates spent almost their entire upper school years under Corona conditions, special rules apply to them: the schools receive an additional suggested task for each examination subject.

The teachers can make a pre-selection from this.

This is to prevent a topic from coming up that was neglected in class due to the pandemic.

In addition, the students are given a little more time to solve their tasks.

Faster from campus to campus:

The extension of the route to the Lichtwiese campus of the Technical University of Darmstadt was long considered controversial.

One or two politicians even had to put up with the accusation of having squandered public funds with the project.

The maiden voyage on the extended tram line was celebrated on Monday.

From now on, line 2, which goes beyond the main station, connects the Lichtwiese campus with the Griesheim campus.

The final accounts are not yet available.

In the end, the 1,200-meter-long route extension is said to have cost around 28 million euros.

And Cro, the man with the mask, gave a concert in Offenbach - in front of an audience in which hardly anyone wore a mask anymore +++ the Eurox Pharma company wants to extract high-dose active ingredients from cannabis blossoms and thus become the market leader +++ opened a hotel at Frankfurt Airport that allows guests to take their own car almost to their room.

Stay healthy,

Marie Lisa Kehler

You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website at www.faz.net/rmz

The

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Tuesday

Partly cloudy and some heavy showers.

Highs around 15 degrees.

At night the rain slowly subsides at 5 degrees.

have birthday

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Tuesday April 26th

Klaus Minkel

(CDU), honorary city councilor in Bad Vilbel (74);

Reinhard Birkert

(SPD), from 2016 to April 2021 head of the city council in Eschborn (69);

Bert Albers

, Chancellor of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (62);

Thomas Duve

, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt (55);