[STFrancis]

Germans were somen of the good guys in this story. The German company was simply hired out to bring cargo from point A to point B.

Once they were notified by GERMAN authorities what was going on they went to a FRIENDLY italian port and helped.

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Viel Glück im neuen Jahr und einen Guten Rutsch!

I've noticed that in all the websites in Germany that I've looked at, "Spiegel" is the only one running this story.

Also, have you been following the story about the lock down on the Hamburg Army hospital because of Islamic terroist threats? Nockemann is getting hammered by the SPD / Greens for making the threat public, while security experts and the Union are defending him?

Doesn't look like Gerhard and the Greens want the word getting out that the Islamis don't mind killing Germans, either. 3 days running as the top news story is unusual AFAIC.

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