A Perfect Crime 2020 -
The city [Dusseldorf] was filled with blue light, ambulances, police, I’ve never seen anything like it … I followed the police cars. A Perfect Crime aka Rohwedder: Einigkeit und Mord und Freiheit I: Martyr, journalist, Netflix 2020
Treuhand president Detlev Rohwedder was murdered in his home in Dusseldorf on Monday night. ibid. TV news
It seems certain that this is a political murder. ibid. politician to TV news
… in the so-far futile attempt to overhaul the economy of what was once East Germany … ibid. Dan Rather, TV news
I wonder where were the security measures to protect him. ibid. Treuhand employee
Rohwedder almost certainly didn’t know the scale of the task in hand. ibid. lawyer
The former GDR has become a de facto colony of West Germany. The economy is being systematically dismantled so that capitalism has free rein to restructure the country, and its uprooted people according to its own demands. The West German government chose Rohwedder to implement this plan, and his brutality and arrogance made him the right man for the job. A Perfect Crime aka Rohwedder: Einigkeit und Mord und Freiheit II: Capitalist, Red Brigade communique
The Red Army Faction has claimed responsibility. ibid. news
By 1980 the Red Army Faction was basically on its knees … The entire RAF leadership was caught. ibid. old boy
The Third Red Army Faction Generation. I don’t believe in it. I don’t think that this Third Generation existed … I just don’t believe that the Red Army Faction from 1987 onwards or even earlier was capable of carrying out attacks like the one on Rohwedder. ibid. former rozzer
I think that Rohwedder was killed by angry citizens of the former GDR … These people must have had excellent military training. A Perfect Crime aka Rohwedder: Einigkeit und Mord und Freiheit III: Occupier, old boy
It could have been some people from the Stasi. ibid. woman
The general impression was here come the occupiers breaking up all kinds of companies to flog them for a quick profit. ibid. old boy
Why didn’t they make a concerted effort to track down the missing millions? ibid. critic
The Rohwedder murder really was the perfect crime, the way it was executed. A Perfect Crime aka Rohwedder: Einigkeit und Mord und Freiheit IV: Victim, old boy
It was either a highly professional killer or a large scale state operation. ibid.