That was the the title I wanted to use for my post that translated the FAZ article. I decided against it at the last minute.
Also: Germany's top security official, Interior Minister Otto Schily
Isn't Schily a renowned defense attorney? I think he helped defend Baader-Meinhof and the RAF in the Hans-Martin Schleyer murder. Supposedly he was a close friend of Rudi Dutschke and Horst(?) Mahler of the APO (Ausser Parlamentarische Opposition), radical leftists in the late 60's.
The government is fraught with recycled 60's characters.
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