Today in Rhein-Main: Taximeters start at 4 euros

Good evening,

Marie Lisa Kehler

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

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Let's be honest: On days when the sun doesn't appear, a visit to the Christmas market can lift the spirits.

Even without mulled wine (or so it is claimed).

Are you looking for ideas?

Then take a look here: https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/die-schoensten-weihnachtsmaerkte-in-frankfurt-und-hessen-18503040.html

You can read what else happened in the Hauptwache.

Alarm on cell phone:

If your children want a new, ultra-modern cell phone for Christmas, you should quickly close the laptop now.

The offspring should better not read the next lines.

Because then your children would find out

On Thursday, among other things, an automatic warning message is to be sent to all mobile phones.

But this will not reach everyone.

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A smartphone that doesn't even sound an alarm?

That, anyone wanting a new device will argue, seems pretty useless.

So, dear Santa, the order should be clear, right?

But don't worry, dear parents - in most cases it should be sufficient to simply install an update.

And everyone should be aware of the test alarm on Thursday at 11 a.m. - whether via smartphone or via the news, electronic display boards or the wailing of the sirens, for example in Höchst and Fechenheim.

In 2020 there was already such a test alarm.

At that time it remained suspiciously quiet for a long time until the emergency chain slowly got underway.

It should go better this time.

We are excited.

Waiting without heating:

Bassam Zabiullah has experienced a lot in his professional life.

Quarrels and reconciliations, silent customers and talkative ones.

Zabiullah is a taxi driver in Frankfurt.

And actually he loves his job.

But the past few years have been difficult.

The family man often waits for hours for passengers.

He hasn't left the heating on while waiting in the taxi for a long time.

The city of Frankfurt has now approved higher taxi rates to relieve drivers.

A trip now costs four instead of 3.50 euros in the basic tariff, and one kilometer is billed at 2.40 euros instead of 1.70 euros.

Among other things, this is intended to compensate for the significantly increased fuel prices, as our author Carlota Brandis writes.

Poison assassin has to go to a psychiatric ward:

Because she poisoned seven people in the Material Sciences department at the TU Darmstadt, a thirty-three-year-old girl has been sentenced to indefinite confinement in a closed psychiatric ward.

Doctors had diagnosed the young woman with paranoid schizophrenia.

She is considered innocent.

The case caused a stir in August 2021.

She had already made a partial confession last week, but denied that her intention was to kill or permanently harm anyone.

Our author Jan Schiefenhövel accompanied the process.

And

the Frankfurt district court has also sentenced the operators of the world's largest child porn platform, Boystown, to long prison terms

activists from the group "End Fossil: Occupy Frankfurt" have occupied a lecture hall at Frankfurt's Goethe University

the audit report on the Greensill debacle ahead.

Our author Oliver Bock answers the question of whether lessons can be learned from this.

Stay healthy,

Marie 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.

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Sun from time to time, otherwise dense clouds and occasional rain showers.

Also sleet on the heights.

Often 5 or 6 degrees, hardly warmer.

have birthday

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Wednesday December 7th

Gerhard Brey

, professor emeritus for petrology and geochemistry at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, honored as the namesake of the mineral breyite (75);

, editor of the magazine "Exil", Frankfurt (68);

, director of the Museum for Communication, curator of the Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication, Frankfurt (64);

, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Finland, Frankfurt (60);

(SPD), mayor of the city of Raunheim from 2000 to October 2022, former chairman of the Frankfurt Aircraft Noise Commission (59);

, actress and cabaret artist known as Anton Le Goff, chairwoman of the cultural association Art-Q, organizer of the Green Sauce Festival, Frankfurt (58);

(The Greens), Member of the German Bundestag, Mainz (56);

, Hanau photojournalist, winner of the World Press Foto Award and the Pulitzer Prize (52);

, President of the Bad Homburg Accadis University (51);

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