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Attack in Villach: When we lose our laughter
The carnival capital has been in mourning since Saturday - and the world suffers with it. A "KärnThema" by "Kärntner Krone" editor-in-chief Hannes Mößlacher.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen On Saturday, the colorful flags of the carnival guild were still flying on the city bridge; by Sunday morning, they had given way to black mourning flags. And even the otherwise colorful iridescent electronic billboards show what the whole of Villach is feeling: deep sorrow.
No, it is far more than Villach; it is the whole of Carinthia, Austria, Europe, it is the whole world that is moved by this vile assassination; this incomprehensible murder, carried out in an inexplicable frenzy with which hate preachers destabilize the Western world through their compliant puppet warriors.
Villach hit the headlines in England, France, the USA and even Al Jazeera, the global media group headquartered in the Emirate of Qatar, reported - this one above all about the hero who stopped his compatriot so that he could not cause any more harm.
What this 15th of February did to all of us will one day be analyzed by a historian of the future. We have lost our laughter. A week of mourning was initially declared in Villach, the carnival sessions were suspended; nobody can imagine today when and if they can be resumed at all. After all, how can we return to the lightness of being with this heavy burden?
It also seems inconceivable that the carnival parade two weeks after the horror could fill the city with exuberance.
Nevertheless, we have to ask ourselves what the aim of this senseless violence should be. After all, the level-headed policewoman with the gun in her hand did not fulfill the cowardly, laughing assassin's possible wish for a possibly fatal shot.
He, who destroyed a family, deprived parents of their child, friends and schoolmates of their faith in this world, injured and traumatized five other people, deprived a town of its peace and everyone of their laughter.
What is really the goal here? We will never be able to understand it and will therefore have to find our own; each for ourselves and all together. Until perhaps we can laugh again.
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