Today in Rhein-Main: Lots of bad news

Good evening,

when we like to report cheerful things here, but today it's not like that.

In the “NSU 2.0” process, the public prosecutor has applied for seven and a half years in prison for the accused Alexander M.

According to prosecutors, the 54-year-old Berliner wrote and sent 83 threatening letters over a period of two and a half years. He had collected the necessary data for years by calling police stations in Frankfurt, Wiesbaden and Berlin and sometimes posing as a police officer have.

Some were also available online.

The public prosecutor's office sees no evidence of complicity by police officers.

Manfred Koehler

Head of department of the Rhein-Main editorial team of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Also terrible:

One of the six seriously injured after the alleged speeding accident in downtown Wiesbaden died on Sunday evening.

It is the 30-year-old driver of a VW Golf who, according to the investigation so far, was rammed by a black Mercedes on Saturday evening on the Gustav-Stresemann-Ring.

The police are hoping for more witnesses to the accident.

Apparently, the suspected cause of the accident had run through a red traffic light at a speed that was significantly too high.

The car overturned after the accident, all five occupants were seriously injured.

Finally:

In the Frankfurt city forest, a walker was hit by a falling branch and fatally injured on Saturday afternoon.

We don't know more.

And

the director Regina Wenig has written a children's book full of Lower Bavarian memories +++ the founder of the Sunflower garden center, Viktor Märcz, looks back on his life in a book +++ there are offspring among the red pandas in the Opel Zoo.

And one more thing:

On the Sunday after next, the people of Frankfurt can decide whether their mayor will remain in office.

This referendum will be discussed at a FAZ event on Monday next week, starting at 7.30 p.m. in the Haus am Dom in Frankfurt.

Participants are Uwe Becker, CDU, Gabriele Eick, entrepreneur, Julia Frank, Die Grünen, and Michael Marquardt, lawyer.

Anyone who would like to take part, either in the Haus am Dom or from home via the Internet: You can register at meinabo.faz.net/benefitsworld.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours, Manfred Koehler

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.

The

for Tuesday

Lots of clouds at first, but only a few showers.

Later mostly friendly and dry, highs around 20 degrees.

birthday

on

Bettina Freifrau von Bethmann

, Chairwoman of the Society for Frankfurt History, bearer of the Honorary and Goethe Plaques of the City of Frankfurt (80);

, photographer living in Frankfurt (74);

, alias Bodo Bach, cabaret artist from Frankfurt (65);

(SPD), Managing Director of the Municipal Employers' Association of Hesse, Frankfurt, former district administrator of the Rheingau-Taunus district (63);

, CEO of the Friedrichsdorf metal processing company Arnold AG (61);

, managing director of the Wiesbaden cultural center Schlachthof (61);

(independent), district administrator of the Rheingau-Taunus district (58);

, Director of the German Leather Museum, Offenbach (57);

, sports psychologist, former soccer player with 1. FFC Frankfurt, world and European champion with the national soccer team, honorary captain (45);

, former gymnast, Olympic champion and world champion on horizontal bar, honorary member of TSG Niedergirmes, ambassador of the Sports Foundation Hessen (35).

You can find information about events online.