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[AKvetch]

OT Update on Cologne Bombing

(BTW, don't think we need to clutter the board further on this subject)

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Explosion in German City of Cologne Probably a Bomb (Update2)
June 9 (Bloomberg) -- An explosion today that occurred in Cologne, Germany's fourth-largest city, was probably caused by a bomb, a police spokeswoman said.

``From what we know at this stage, we're assuming the explosion was caused by a bomb,' Cathrin Maus, a spokeswoman for the Cologne police, said in a telephone interview. The bomb, which detonated at about 4 p.m. local time, caused ``several' injuries, Maus said. No further details are available at the moment, she said.

The bomb exploded outside a three-story house located in a street where the majority of inhabitants are Turkish, German television channel N-TV said, citing unidentified people at the site of the explosion. The bomb consisted of a device filled with more than 1,000 nails and injured at least 17 people, several of them severely, N-TV said.

Based near the industrial Ruhr Valley and located in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne has 1.02 million inhabitants, of which about 67,000 are Turkish, according to the city Web site. RTL Group SA, Europe's largest broadcaster, has its German headquarters in Cologne.



To contact the reporter on this story:
Benedikt Kammel in Berlin at [e-mail].

To contact the editors responsible for this story:
Lars Klemming at [e-mail] or
Zimri Smith at [e-mail].
Last Updated: June 9, 2004 12:56 EDT

[skono4]

nice translation from the German....(?)

[xaverion]

OT: Hi TJ-P,

Funny that this story finally made the crossing over the Atlantic…
It went through the German newspapers a week ago and took a lot of space especially in the yellow press.
The poor professor was interviewed more than a dozen times by the media, told everybody that the so called study was just a minor questioning, done by a group of students that asked about 100 people for their grilling habits.

The result from their “study” can be found at

http://www.soziologie.uni-freiburg.de/degele/modernisierung/ergebnisse/SS02/grillen/material/Statist...

But the story developed its own life. The more the professor told the people, that there was no scientific result at all, the more the fantasy of the journalists was stimulated.

The professor said she never made any statement about male archaic behavior in the interviews and if she had known the attention before, she would have given no permission to publish the paper because she fears that the reputation of her division is in danger.

As you can see the way news spread in Germany is not so different from other countries and I will not be surprised if her “work” will be at least rewarded with the Nobel price in sociology. (Has to be invented first). (vbg)

Nevertheless my hometown gets some hula in the world press, but I hope we will not be reduced to be the “Grilling Neanderthals”.

Xaverion