Flowers instead of asphalt

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The issue of biodiversity remains topical in sollberg. As part of the village renewal, the central square and the edges of the village street were cleared of asphalt and flower beds were planted in 2014. Parts of the village community tend the flower beds. Despite the many volunteer hours, there were areas with gaps in the flower carpet due to last year’s dry summer. This now required a replanting.

The board of directors of the participating community came up with the idea of involving children in the planting process. The plant locations were prepared and numbered by gunther eichler, local representative of the village renewal of sollenberg, so that the children could put their numbered plants in the right place on their own – with a little help from the adults.

It’s not always easy to find enough volunteers to maintain the grasslands. Gunther eichler felt overwhelmed at times with his few comrades-in-arms last summer while doing a lot of digging. He was therefore surprised at the rough response from children and adults. "I was so happy that day with the children", he beamed. 18 children and ten adults participated. The children were almost unstoppable in the end. Therefore, they still planted at the "triangle", where adults are supposed to be doing the work. The young gardeners also learned right away that plants need nutrients. Organic natural manure was used.

A total of 118 plants were put into the ground. Eichler had selected the flowers and perennials very carefully in advance. As one of the most active members of the state association for the protection of birds, he also knows a lot about plants. He is currently working at the district level with the relevant officials and district administrator hermann ulm (CSU) to increase the number of flower meadows.

To exchange experiences he contacted the beekeeper oliver fischer. Together with him, he had refined the selection of varieties and adapted them to food-seeking insects. Among other things, catmint, beard flower, blue rue, widow and beard flower were planted. The plants come from the schmidtlein tree nursery in effeltrich. "I think we have seldom reaped so much joy, happiness and satisfaction as with the provision of the money for the plants in sollenberg", said project manager michael ullwer from the office for rural development.

The mayor of grafenberg, hans-jurgen nekolla (SPD), was also impressed: "the village renewal of lilling-sollenberg has greatly improved the quality of life in the villages. I become really aware of this when I recall the picture of the formerly asphalted square with the glass containers in sollenberg."

"If the requirements are met, our office can also provide financial support for unsealing and courtyard redesign. We provide free professional advice", he told ullwer. For those who have no more space in their private gardens for new plants, there is another chance as part of the village renewal: the bus stop area on lillinger hohe has been redesigned. The planting can be done by the villagers again.

Today, tuesday, all buses of the stadtwerke bamberg are expected to be at a standstill. Because from 4.30 o’clock the trade union verdi calls for a nationwide warning strike. This is the first major strike in decades over the framework collective agreement for local transport, which is to be regulated more uniformly throughout germany: 30 days of vacation per year, better overtime regulations and better structuring of pay are verdi’s goals. The federal employers’ association has decided to leave this issue to the states to decide, and is currently refusing to talk about it.

"If something isn’t done to improve working conditions, we’ll soon have no more young drivers, unionist dirk schneider, responsible for transport and municipal employers at verdi oberfranken-west, said. 100,000 new drivers will be needed nationwide in the next ten years. In order to deal with the problem of junior staff, the special collective agreement for local transport in bavaria contains further demands that are to be emphasized by the warning strike: a reduction of the working week to 35 hours with full wage compensation, as well as higher bonuses for night and sunday travel and further improvements.

Lines are currently cancelled again and again due to illness, and employees in bamberg alone are working 10,000 hours overtime.

Parents’ association informs

For the morning, the union calls for a meeting at the depot of the municipal utility in georgenstrabe. The workforce comprises 160 people, 60 of whom are unionized. The mood in the run-up to the strike is good. Parents and school associations have already been informed by letter that the schools will not be transported by the municipal buses on tuesday either. "We want to make it clear that our strikes are not directed against the schools, but can preserve school transport in the long term", explains schneider. That’s why he considers this approach to be far-sighted, since too much has been saved on personnel over the past 20 years.

Because more young people also allow for a higher frequency and thus an expansion of public transport, important climate protection goals could be better achieved if this means more cars standing idle in the future. The climate protection movement fridays for future and the organization attac have therefore been on the side of the union since the beginning of the wage negotiations and will also be present at the verdi rally in bamberg.

Private line not affected

"We are in the process of informing our passengers through all possible channels", jan giersberg describes the efforts of the public utility company. The press spokesman is pleased with the timely information from the union, so that customers can choose a different mode of transportation. Giersberg emphasizes the constitutional right to unite as a union and states: "we will not stand in the way of our colleagues." an estimated 30,000 passengers had to do without bus rides during the day. All other divisions of the municipal utilities, such as energy or internet, are not affected. In addition, the scheduled cab services and the privately operated bus routes in the district are exempt from the strike.

For the 19. October is the next round of negotiations with the employers’ associations in bavaria. Unionist schneider is combative: "if the employers don’t move, further strikes are conceivable."

Report: amri probably first planned attack in shopping center

The late christmas market bomber anis amri allegedly targeted a berlin shopping center for an explosives attack in 2016. This is the result of documents of investigators, which the ARD-magazine "kontraste", the "berliner morgenpost" and the RBB were able to see.

That amri, together with a french islamist and the caucasian russian magomed-ali c. It has been known for a long time that he had planned an explosive attack. What is new, however, is that clement B, who had been imprisoned in france in the meantime, had been arrested. At that time had posted on instagram a photo of the "healthy fountain center". Amri is said to have been in the shopping center for a long time one day later, as an analysis of the location data of his cell phone showed.

The terror trio then abandoned the explosives plan after all. Because the police paid a visit to the islamist from dagestan in october 2016. But only to tell him that he was being considered a radical islamist.

According to their own statements, the berlin police did not know at the time that material for a bomb was stored in the apartment. What became of the explosives is unknown. Amri hijacked on 19. December 2016 a truck, raced into the christmas market at berlin’s memorial church and killed a total of twelve people.

"It makes you feel queasy when you think about the potential impact of an explosive attack at berlin’s gesundbrunnen," said irene mihalic, the grunen chairwoman on the federal parliament’s investigation committee into the breitscheidplatz terrorist attack. The indication that a coordinated series of attacks had been planned in berlin, paris and brussel also shows that the european networking of islamist terrorism in particular "is still shockingly underexposed".

FDP interior politician benjamin strasser said there is now nothing left of the "single perpetrator theory" that dominated all investigations after the breitscheidplatz attack.

According to a response from the federal government to a small question from the afd parliamentary group, the exchange of data on islamist threats in europe has been patchy up to now. It states that the transfer of information "on personal potential relevant to state security from other EU member states to germany" is based on the laws applicable there "and is the sole responsibility of the respective state".

Information is often only passed on after an attack has taken place. For example, the federal criminal police office did not receive any information until the evening of the 11th. December 2018 knowledge that the assassin cherif chekatt in france had been included in a file of radical islamists. Chekatt had killed five people shortly before in strabburg. In october 2016, the frenchman was sentenced to imprisonment for grand larceny by the singen district court. He was deported to france at the end of february 2017.

The non-official interrogation of a dealer who had sold drugs together with amri in berlin was not very productive for the amri investigation committee on thursday evening. The tunisian, who is in jail for drug trafficking and is to be deported, did not seem very credible to the members of the committee. According to participants in the meeting, he claimed not to have known about amri’s terror plans and his enthusiasm for the ideology of the islamic state (IS) terrorist militia.

The committee also wanted to question the tunisian bilal ben ammar, who was deported in february 2017. He had met with amri on the eve of the attack. For the day of the attack, he has no alibi.

Documents from the tunisian judiciary, first reported by "zeit online," show that ben ammar was appointed on september 15. June 2017 and 11. September of the same year was questioned in his home country on terrorist charges. He admitted to selling cocaine and hashish in a german refugee shelter. He denied involvement in financing and planning terrorist activities. He said his meeting with amri in a restaurant on the eve of the attack had only served the purpose of handing over drugs.

The investigators also held up to him the testimony of another tunisian suspect who, according to the interrogation protocol, had declared that he had wanted to travel to the syrian IS region together with ben ammar and two other tunisians. The imam of a mosque in berlin-tempelhof had given them money for the trip. Ben ammar also denied this.

According to the tunisian ministry of justice, it is not known where ben ammar is currently staying. However, the federal intelligence service is said to have received a tip-off in march 2018 that he had been sentenced to several years’ imprisonment in tunisia.

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