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May 22, 2012
Published: 22 Jan 12 14:29 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120122-40269.html
A police commissioner in western Germany fatally shot his eight-year-old daughter before killing himself on Saturday, just two days after his wife told him she wanted a divorce.
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From the type of crime and the way it as comitted I would say that he was certainly German. When did you ever saw a black/turkish german cop? And if you did would it be a comissioner? >SaarLouis?
What more hints to do you? That should be enough to not feed neo nazi trolls, stromfront members and other bigots. ^^
Oh, yeah.. someone will moan the Jews made his wife divorce him! LOL!
RIP little one!
The real problem here is that in a divorce the man is "the bad guy" and the woman is "the victim" and the rights of the man are way less. At least, that is how it seems to play out.
The laws, in particularly the divorce laws in modern civilizations, have to be changed - to bring real equality - or we are just going to see more of this. This is not a new phenomenon.
Think about it. If someone you put your heart and soul into came up to you one day and said I want a divorce, oh yeah, and I'm going to take your kids (and probably talk crap about you to them every chance I get) and take up to half of everything you worked for while we were together (even though I really had no part in any of that value that you earned with your stress and hard work)... what would you do? Now, on top of that, you have access to guns all the time...hmmmm...
Women should stand up with men and just look for equality in these issue... but they won't because in divorces, they are (for the most part) the recipients. I may be off base, but how many cases of women shooting their husbands because they want a divorce do you see?
This is yet another case of a German police officer going off the rails, which is disturbing as they are armed. You would think that the selection process and annual testing would sift out the potential nut jobs. If this police officer could resort to shooting his daughter, how many other police officers are out there with a below standard set of morality when it comes to right and wrong.
One issue that always effects the police in a negative way is becoming cynical. My niece in the US is a sheriff at a jail facility. And she says she has to fight hard to not become cynical about people and society as a whole. the issue is. She and all police in general. Are exposed on a daily basis to the very worst that society has to offer. So after a while. Police even when off duty will look at a stranger on the street and even family members. And wonder what crime they have committed. And that is a terrible and mentally destructive way to life your life. I firmly believe that police should submit to the occasional interview and questionnaire. To evaluate weather the stresses of the job might be getting to their mental health.