These are images of unique beauty from a faded land. India-1964-

It had been 16 years since the colonial masters - the British - had left. India was still a young state in itself, searching for its own identity after centuries of foreign rule. The photographs are from Bombay, today's Mumbai, Calcutta and Delhi.

They show the everyday life of the generation of that time. The pictures come from the private collection of the then British Consul General at the High Commission in Bombay. The Copyright of the pictures is ours. Copying and reprinting are expressly prohibited.

Refreshment in the evening light

It was the murder of Horst Strohe, at night around 1 a.m. on 13 September 1992, that terrified an entire city then as it does now.

The brutality of the crime against the victim, who openly lived with his homosexuality, is unmatched.

Numerous witnesses saw the then 54-year-old man being literally executed with kicks to the chest and against the head in a square not far from white benches below the OVB office on the street "Am Malzbüchel", in the connection next to Heumarkt.

The investigators at the time did not rule out that possible witnesses in 1992 wanted to remain unidentified - out of concern that details of their sexual inclination might become known. Today's investigators forget that the victims were treated as badly by the police as they were by sections of society.

The brutality of the crime was unprecedented and showed how homosexuals were systematically made fair game by sections of society as late as the 1990s.

What had happened?

That was also the question asked by the investigators in Aktenzeichen( German police file XY on  October,13 2021 when they presented the case of Horst Strohe, who had been kicked to death on Heumarkt, on the programme.

Until now, it is still not clear whether Strohe was the victim of a random act of violence or knew the perpetrator beforehand.

At that time, it was known in the circles around the Heumarkt and Alter Markt in Cologne that homosexuals openly moved around in pubs there. In addition, it was known, since 1991, as contemporary witnesses reported, that foreign youths gathered in the area up to the office of the OVB and the then fast food restaurant Mc Iwan at the KVB tram stop Heumarkt in the direction of Deutz to go "homosexual gossiping" in front of the said pubs. According to contemporary witnesses, this also applied to the transvestite theatre Timp, where the later victim had to walk past.

There were also the places where the homosexuals looked for their partners, met for one-night stands. The area extended towards Severinsbrücke on the Rhine. It was known that Strohe frequented homosexual circles between Heumarkt and Severinsbrücke, which was called the "leather scene" during the years.

It was already common for several youths to pounce on the victims and demand some kind of protection money or simply strike. People were cautious at that time when they came out of one of the bars at night. This is what witnesses from the time report. In 1993, for example, there was allegedly an incident in front of a former fish shop/snack bar on the previously declared Heumarkt.

Strohe went to the bus stop in the direction of Heumarkt and was attacked on the way by his later murderer and killed with numerous kicks to the head. This happened in the immediate vicinity of the brightly lit Hotel Maritim at the head of Heumarkt facing the Rhine.

The tram line also ran close to where Strohe, who worked as a computer technician and programmer for an insurance company and was known and respected by many in the "black leather scene", was murdered.

Especially in Hühnergasse, adjacent to Heumarkt, where the bar "Caroussel" was, one could hear how homosexuals were often harassed and threatened. Sometimes they were even hit. Or "Pustis" (Greek for faggot) was shouted, spat at etc..

The perpetrator is described by the Cold Case Unit under Commissioner Weber as follows: about 20 years old at the time, about 1.80 metres tall, slim and athletic. He is said to have been wearing a white shirt with a snake pattern. He might have been trained in East Asian fighting techniques. He may have been travelling with other men who are being sought as witnesses.

Police File : Crime Scene 1992, Police Cologne

Investigators are also looking for two witnesses from the deceased's personal circle who were at Heumarkt shortly after the crime, according to the police in Cologne.

First Chief Detective Markus Weber will present the case in the programme. Witnesses can be contacted by the Cologne police on 0221 229-0 or by e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

A day at the end of time

The 1990s, the years of awakening and freedom, were over on September 11, 2001.

What actually happened, or happened then, is only clarified in fragments today - the involvement of Saudi Arabia and the crude regime is not obvious.

The next religious war began.

Now, one might think that a small terrorist group has won the war against almost the entire world community, if one sees the pictures from Kabul these days.

With the loss of the democratic structures of the state of Afghanistan to the terrorist force of the Taliban, much of what happened in the world after September 11, 2001 has become meaningless.

The horrific scenes left a lasting mark on the later generation.

The war that triggered a cascade of revolutions a decade later. Saddam and his absurd vision of the world. A servant of terror, Gaddafi, beaten to death by his people. Other despots from Arabia disappeared into comfortable exile.

The images of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York are unforgotten.

These snapshots of the event burned themselves into the collective memory of humanity. People still believe that it was a complete conspiracy, as the tweet below shows. However, governments did everything to keep the conspiracy going.

In memory of all those who lost their lives on September 11 2001#911Anniversary #11Septembre #History #11september2001 #911Memorial #USA #September11 ?? pic.twitter.com/s0K9VJhgG9

— Max Tat Shahdoost (@realmaxtsh) September 10, 2021

No government covered itself in glory afterwards - harrowing sequences live across screens

It was the declared war of a small group of utterly deluded conspirators whose sole aim was apparently to divide society.

The previous Taliban government in Kabul had given shelter to those who were dividing society worldwide, leading to the events that weeks ago caused people to fly out of planes, wanting to escape in much the same way as those trapped on the upper floors of the WTC towers. Until they jumped for fear of suffocation or burning to death.  Trump's short-sightedness in political matters, the simple and stupid answer of a populist to complex questions, enabled another disaster.

The world has learned little from September 11, 2001. The victims are unforgotten. At least we can remember them

Nasty rumours and a video far from the world

Nasty rumours have gone about Dr Ruja Ignatova and her more than mysterious disappearance in Athens, in October 2017.

Behind OneCoin was a pyramid scam that left an estimated €4.5 billion worth of damage in the world. Other estimates put the figure at US$15 billion. The purely real reason for Ignatova's disappearance will have been that the go-getting Bulgarian knew that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation was after her. Accomplices of hers will also have suspected and known this fact and therefore acted. It is more likely that the wanted woman is dead, and that the perpetrator had a video produced that cannot be surpassed in ridiculousness.  

 
But, as with Wirecard-Marsalek, dubious connections to intelligence services are now surfacing. 

Not even a close resemblance to the Corpse, screenshot Facebook

Nobody knows what happened then, after the flight with Ryanair to Athens. Ignatova disappeared off the face of the earth afterwards. This gave rise to stories that are devoid of any reality, such as Ignatova having absconded to Russia. Or that Ignatova had come back to the EU as a refugee. It couldn't get any more absurd. Or that she was living in a palace in the desert. Well...! Passport copies from Dubai have even turned up, leaving doubts about their origin. Among them was an alleged document from the German embassy in Dubai. 

 
But now a more than unbelievable video is really fuelling the rumour mill. Allegedly, as if from a cult, the alleged Ignatova is sitting and lecturing about the relaunch of the failed currency OneCoin. She talks about betrayal and is looking to the future, about OneCoin, like a fetish. Admittedly, the person Ignatova doubles bears a certain resemblance to the Bulgarian woman missed by many investors.

 
The garishly made-up boat lips and the black hair, as well as the nonsense the mime explains, fit in with the hopelessness of the OneCoin company. Moreover, at the end of the first edition of the video, which was created with a lot of technology, Russians are yapping. One does wonder. Marsalek is also suspected to be in Russia. It's a scoundrel who suspects connections. 

A monstrous scandal is taking off

Meanwhile, there are even rumours that there was a connection between the fugitive Marsalek and the beautifully made-up Bulgarian woman. This monstrous network is said to have developed from Dubai.

Certainly, OneCoin was a maturation of the underworld, with the claim to create its currency, which would then function as money laundering. Thus, funds from sex hotlines and gambling were allegedly laundered in the currency initiative of the missing Bulgarian woman, entrusted to Marsalek by the Russian, Italian and Bulgarian Mafia.  

So far, there has only been the arrest of her brother Konstantin, called "Konsti Keks" (biscuit) in the USA and the almost legendary celebrity hype surrounding the missing protagonist Ignatova. However, the de facto manager "Konsti Keks" since the disappearance of his sister became soft in the interrogations that took place in New York. The brother had arrived in reality shortly before his arrest in the US, 2019, following his Facebook account: 

Konstantin Ignatov likes TIMES OF GRACE: "The Hymn Of A Broken Man" Album Teaser - Part 8 | Roadrunner Records at en.roadrunnerrecords.com.

Companies built up around the queen of blockchain currency, enabling the surrounding group to receive billions in a financial circus show from investors, to launder billions more. 

As everyone now knows or suspects, Ignatova had nothing to do with the concept of OneCoin. The day also had only 24 hours for her. She may have been chubby, but she wasn't particularly smart. While warped to the point of caricature, Ignatova now proclaims in the video that she had new ideas and not everyone passed the test she took with her then faithful.

Was money laundered through Luxembourg?

This includes Frank Schneider, the former head of operations at Luxembourg's Secret Service SREL, who is in extradition custody in France to be brought to the US. He is accused by prosecutors in the US of billions in fraud involving blockchain currencies. What the former vice-president of Luxembourg's Secret Service, who was previously accused of wiretapping then Minister of State Jean-Claude Juncker in 2007, had to do with Ignatova, for whatever reason, is explained by an insider as having switched sides to the bad guys. Schneider understood it was a pyramid scheme for money laundering on a very grand scale.

The tap operation is said to be the next unsolved action, the so-called "Bommeleeër" affair. It is about an illegal eavesdropping on the electronics engineer Loris Mariotto and an allegedly encrypted CD about a conversation between the then Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker and the Grand Duke about the stay-backs, attributed to the Gladio network.

 
Connections of the perpetrators, who have not yet been unmasked, lead to the phantoms of the Brabant gang, a group that left more than two dozen dead in robberies in Belgium in the 1980s and financed itself from questionable sources. 

The video is a joke and this joke will leave more victims out of pocket for an investment mirage.