BERLIN ATTACK_ Opinion: Attack on Berlin is bound to change Germany

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Opinion: Attack on Berlin is bound to change Germany

Date 20.12.2016
Author Alexander Kudascheff (db)

Germany's long-held fears have become reality, but it doesn't end here. The attack in Berlin is bound to change the country, says DW editor in chief Alexander Kudascheff.




The attack in Berlin has shocked and horrified Germany. Twelve people are dead, almost 50 injured, some of them seriously. The attack, this terrorist act, was aimed at the entire country, at the free society in which Germans live. And it was aimed at a particularly peaceful symbol: the Christmas market, a place visited by millions of people in the weeks leading up to Christmas - not just Germans, but people from all over the world who want to forget their everyday lives, leave their stress behind, and take a carefree winter stroll, filled with Christmas cheer.

Terror targeting everyone

The attack, this murderous act of terror, targets all of us who want to live our lives in freedom. It's a crude attack on this desire for liberty - which is why the attack on Berlin will change Germany. We are no longer, as has been vaguely suggested for a long time, in the cross-hairs of international terrorism - we have become its victims, like the British, French, Spaniards, Israelis, Americans and others.

It doesn't matter whether the perpetrator was a mentally disturbed gunman, a lone wolf with murderous intent or a group with a fundamentalist background: the attack hits free society at its core. It hits an open society. In targeting a Christmas market, it also hits a Christian symbol, an expression of German and European traditions and identity.

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