Apparently it was a coordinated killing. This makes it notable because it means an officer of the Stasi following orders has been convicted of a crime.

On the day he died, Kukuczka had gone to the Polish embassy in East Berlin and threatened to detonate a dummy bomb unless he was granted passage to the West, according to recent historical research.

Embassy staff are believed to have approved Kukuczka’s request while alerting East German authorities to the threat.

Stasi officials handed Kukuczka an exit visa and led him to the crossing where Naumann was waiting, concealed behind a screen, according to prosecutors.

Archival documents suggest the secret police were under orders to “render harmless” the Pole, a common euphemism found in Stasi documents for the liquidation of political opponents.

Nauman shot Kukuczka to death in an ambush. And now, at 80 years old, Nauman has been jailed for ten years.

Update November 4: the plot thickens as reports confirm these Russian bombs were meant to strike America.

You probably thought the German trains never running on time wasn’t intentional. Their federal office of constitution protection (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) has revealed that the entropy of DHL package timelines actually prevented a Russian bomb from catching fire and crashing an airplane.

Thomas Haldenwang, head of Germany’s domestic intelligence service, said that only a lucky coincidence meant that the package caught fire on the ground at a DHL logistics centre in Leipzig and not in mid-air. He did not say if it was a passenger or freight plane. Haldenwang told a parliamentary committee at the German Bundestag that if the package had ignited during the flight, “it would have resulted in a crash”.

Despite a huge emergency crew response and rapid fire suppression in Korea, they had to watch the Tesla owner burned alive inside while struggling to open any door.

According to reports, the accident occurred at around 5:40 pm on Thursday. The white Tesla Model Y crashed into a wall in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province and quickly burst into flames. Although the fire brigade arrived quickly and extinguished the fire within 10 minutes, the male driver in his 30s inside the car was already buried in the flames. Korean media reported that the driver seemed to have tried to open the door several times, but failed for unknown reasons. The South Korean police also added that after the fire broke out in the front of the vehicle, the driver was suspected of climbing into the back seat in an attempt to escape.

This safety design failure is unique to Tesla. It has been documented repeatedly; around the world many people have been burned alive as they are unable to open the Tesla doors.

This story ends with the owner fortunately not dying, instead admitting to reporters that he had been warned Tesla was unsafe.

A Tesla owner says the steering wheel locked up while he was driving Wednesday morning, forcing him to smash into the front of a Noe Valley corner store.

Raymond LaPointe told The Standard he was alone in his Model Y, which he has owned for three years, and was driving it manually when his steering wheel suddenly seized up. The collision with Noe Hill Market left him with scrapes but no other injuries.

“I don’t drive it that much. I’ve heard of other people having some issues, but I never experienced it. But now that it happened to me, I’m rattled — very rattled,” LaPointe said. “I bought the Tesla before I knew Elon Musk was an asshole. Now I don’t like the car.”

Nobody should like the car, independent of the CEO, given how it is manifestly unsafe by simple objective measures. But once they dislike the CEO, one of the most compelling reasons is the same reason to immediately sell the car — his repeated intentional fraud regarding safety means every single Tesla is unsafe to operate in public.