What was first tried out at Chambord Castle in 1952 has since become very popular not only in other regions of France but also worldwide: the illumination of historical monuments utilizing special lighting effects and often combined with background music or storytelling. The sound and light show at the pyramids of Giza, for example, is very well known.
Extraordinary illuminations can be seen at various locations in Lorraine. Different cities use the most modern media technology to offer a spectacle to guests and locals alike, but also to draw attention to buildings and the exciting history of the region in an entertaining and sophisticated way. In summer, for example, there is video mapping at Metz Cathedral, a sound and light show at Toul Cathedral or the illumination at Lunéville Castle.
Hotel de Ville during the illumination, rm, kasaan media, 2019
But one of the most impressive is undoubted "Son et Lumière" on Place Stanislas in Nancy.
Duke Stanislas, former King of Poland, lived in France as Duke of Lorraine between 1733 and 1766. Through his building activities and ideas, he had a decisive influence on the present appearance of Nancy. The Place Stanislas, which was built according to his plans, is an architectural gem due to its uniform baroque architecture and is rightly considered one of the most beautiful squares in Europe. This square, which has also been included in the Unesco World Heritage List or, to put it correctly, the buildings around the square have been providing the canvas for spectacular illumination since 2007. Once only thrown onto the façade of the Town Hall, the show now comprises a total of five buildings, including the Opera House, the Grand Hotel and the Museum of Art.
Nancy Opera on the Place Stanislas, rm, kasaan media, 2019
Between 15 June and 15 September 2019, anyone can experience the 20-minute event, which is free of charge to viewers, on the square at 10.45 p.m. in the evening, or 10.00 p.m. since 16 August. A warm summer evening with a good meal in one of the many street restaurants and then a spectacle of the extra class. The technology is realised via eight projectors and seven media servers. About eight kilometres of cable had to be laid for this. But an effort that is enjoying increasing popularity. In 2019, around 900,000 visitors were expected to come to Place Stanislas in the evening.
Scenes from the history of Lorraine are presented in eleven individual sequences and reminded of prominent personalities from the region, including the famous astronomer Charles Messier, who came from Lorraine.
A particular focus in 2019 will be on a homage to the opera of Nancy, which celebrates its 100th anniversary.
And as the crowning finale to the opera, the Queen of the Night.
Year after year, some of the sequences are exchanged so that a visit is always worthwhile.
Lorraine and the city of Nancy are worth a visit - especially in summer.
Nîmes is undoubtedly the pearl of southern France, located in the region of Occitania. Nîmes incredible history is still evident today in the urban development and lifestyle of the more than 2000-year-old metropolis.
Street café near the station, kasaan media, 2019
Nîmes was once a Roman settlement with today the only amphitheatre in the world still preserved in its original form.
Nîmes railway station, kasaan media, 2019
Nîmes is a city of extraordinary beauty, with Napoleonic and neoclassical buildings lining its streets. Here, too, the last few years have seen high levels of social dislocation, which began with the wave of refugees from Africa.
Amphitheatre forecourt, kasaan media, 2019
But Nîmes is also the starting point for fans of French bullfighting. Like a shining jewel, the former Roman arena in the centre of the city stands out almost majestically from all the other buildings.
Front yard, kasaan media, 2019
A visit to this 2000-year-old building is a must to do. At present, it is being restored. At the cash desk, you can get a recorder, which informs you about the eventful history of this monument. The view in the arena is breathtaking. One feels deeply connected with history. It is the breath of the journey through time. The Roman arena has lost nothing of its charm. Museums of Roman history complete the picture.
Street in Nîmes, kasaan media, 2019
Countless cafés and restaurants offer visitors the cuisine of Southern France. Here you can feast to your heart's content, enjoy a bottle of red wine and let your soul dangle.
Prefecture in Nîmes, kasaan media, 2019
Nîmes is on the edge of the Camargue, which stretches from there like a headland to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer. One can observe wild horses and flamingos in the Étang. Nîmes is exciting, captivating for the visitor because it is here that antiquity meets modernity and has developed a flair that cannot be found anywhere else in France or the South.
Prefecture in Nîmes, kasaan media, 2019
Promenades are the order of the day on the wide boulevards and desired, the history of the houses is told on numerous buildings - like here at the residence of a famous writer.
Side Boulevard Victor Hugo, kasaan media, 2019
Nîmes is léger and always offers a surprise. In the heart of the city, there is a park that blends in with the otherwise modern city centre. Hotels are a dime a dozen in Nîmes.
Bullfighting Monument, Boulevard Victor Hugo, kasaan media, 2019
But we recommend the Hotel Campanile in Mas-Carbonnel. The rooms are simple but practical. We recommend the hotel for the friendliness of the staff and the restaurant. There is a daily changing buffet for small money and main courses that are very tasty. With a glass of wine from Languedoc-Roussillon and the "savoir-vivre" is perfect.
La Cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Castor, kasaan media, 2019
A press conference was held yesterday as part of the charges brought by the General Prosecutor's Office in Koblenz against the operators and managers of the bunker in Traben-Trarbach. The shelter had been taken up last September. In the process, 403 servers, 57 mobile phones, 412 individual hard disks, 61 computers or laptops, 65 USB storage media, 16 SD cards and various CDs and floppy disks with a total data stock of more than two petabytes (over 2 million gigabytes) were seized. The operation was carried out by GSG 9 (Special unit) and mobile task forces, as well as hundreds of police officers.
Documents available to the editors speak their own language. Profit at any price and the ruthless pursuit of those who wanted to dry up the "bulletproof host" system. Besides, the collaboration with other groups of perpetrators who were not mentioned in the context of the current indictment, such as the operators of the so-called "southern cocaine route", as well as the many small "water carriers" of the "Bulletproof-Host" system, who nested in the slipstream of the bunker on the Moselle, which was procured by a Dutchman in 2013.
It has to be said that some of the servers could not be evaluated so far because the data is encrypted.
Now, eight accused persons have been charged by the Landeszentralstelle Cybercrime (LZC) of the General Prosecutor's Office in Koblenz at the Regional Court in Trier, including the Juvenile Criminal Court, as some of the accused still fall under juvenile criminal law. For reasons of procedural economy, only a few offences were charged.
Pseudo E-Bay for darknet cave newts
The explanations were very detailed for the fact that the judiciary in Koblenz is entering uncharted legal territory by accusing the accused in the sense of a criminal association, and by mutually attributing the acts to the participants, which made it possible for the perpetrators to commit the acts at all. Drug trafficking, counterfeit money deals, data theft, child porn, computer sabotage, murder orders, bodily injury, cyber-attacks, extortion and money laundering were the business model of the heroes of the digital underground.
Everything was contained in the "colourful bouquet of products" of the men from the bunker.
Like cave newts, they formed the interface to all darkness dealers of the internet. The aggressive advertising caught not only the eye of the knowledgeable observer but also the "Trojanisation" of legal products on the internet, which were then also traded in the legal part of the internet, partly via mailboxes, by affiliated dealers. However, entire shops were also hosted, which, like "Cannabis Road", only existed for a few months and then disappeared from the market, as is usual in the industry. But the cut was made. One example was the Darknet marketplace "Wall Street Market", an invariably profitable market where drugs were traded in the kg range. Other business areas were not limited to drug trafficking from China, but also included fraudulent Bitcoin lotteries, Darknet marketplaces for weapons, counterfeit money, murder orders and child pornography, and identity theft. This operation was carried out via, according to the LKA and the public prosecutor's office, 6,581(!) Darknet websites. Own distribution rings, organized through the "Bulletproof Host", were directed out of the bunker. Serious assault on order and an interface to scammers, such as drug and medicine dealers of self-sufficient dealers, were also coordinated from here.
Not to mention the countless people-smugglers and money launderers, blackmailers. Everything illegal was allowed. The bunker was run according to the latest management and market profitability criteria. Investigators still erroneously assume that "only" drug markets were formed in the darknet or botnets in the digital underground. To reach further groups of buyers, the operators, mainly from the Netherlands, decided early on to enter the Clearnet. Parts of the Clearnet of the network should still exist.
Data was also collected here against possible opponents of the "bulletproof host" and affiliated shops, for which orders were then placed to silence the people concerned.
Since 2016 there were various hints on the bunker, but they were not seen in context.
More than a thousand years old, the town is located at the foot of the Harz Mountains, almost precisely on the German-German border at the time of the German division.
Bad Sachsa is a thermal cure resort. Tourism in Bad Sachsa has existed since 1860.
The relocation of the military research institute from Peenemuende to Bad Sachsa during the Second World War is also worth mentioning today.
Many families who lived in Bad Sachsa at that time were forcibly arrested and deported.
Bad Sachsa was a stronghold of the Nazis.
In Bad Sachsa, research on the V2 and its successors continued. Prisoners from the nearby concentration camp Dora-Mittelbau were cruelly used. Wernher von Braun and Dornberger were accommodated in Bad Sachsa until the bombing of Nordhausen in April 1945.
The St. Nikolai church and the borderland museum, (Grenzlandmuseum) which communicates the German-German division very vividly, are places that every tourist should have visited at the foot of the southern Harz Mountains.
One of the most beautiful exhibits in British automobile history was the Austin 14, built from 1937-39, which had a very powerful but quiet six-cylinder engine that produced 38 kW. The top speed was set at 110 km per hour. The car consumed a lot of petrol and was very susceptible to repairs. The body was very rusty. The clutch was quickly worn out. The entry of the United Kingdom into the Second World War ended the further production of this incredibly comfortable vehicle.
The middle-class vehicle was available as a limousine and convertible. Nothing is known about the number of units built.
How this vehicle came to Germany can no longer be traced. It is likely that a soldier drove this car in Germany after the war and sold it afterwards.
Incredible brutality of a mentally disturbed perpetrator
The murder case to the detriment of the then 13-year-old Tristan Bruebach, who was found dead on Thursday, March 26, 1998, in the now-closed Liederbach Tunnel in Frankfurt-Hoechst, built-in 1937, is still one of the most brutal murders in German post-war history and, above all, one of the most mysterious crimes ever committed in Germany. Tristan came from a difficult childhood. His mother had died sometime earlier and was reported to have committed suicide. Tristan lived with his father, who was the sole breadwinner.
For 22 years, the Frankfurt homicide squad in charge of the case, and since 2007 the Special group Tristan has been trying to arrest the perpetrator(s). The crime shook the entire Rhine-Main area at the time.
Tristan Bruebach had gone to school that day with back pain and wanted to see a doctor afterwards.
The execution of the crime was marked by indescribable brutality and by mutilations and the "trophy hunt" of the unknown perpetrator.
What took place on the day of the crime is still not evident to this day. It can only be reconstructed with significant difficulty. It is also challenging to reconstruct whether Tristan knew his murderer fleetingly or whether he knew him closer when he probably met him in the Liederbach tunnel below the Hoechst station He was sitting there at about 1:45 p.m., smoking a cigarette. Cameras recorded this.
What he did in the next two hours or so after calling his father from a telephone booth could only be reconstructed in fragments. Another student saw Tristan on his way home at about 2:15–2:25 p.m. in front of the Hoechst station, sitting alone on a bench there.
Many conceivable scenarios could have taken place on that day. The man in the sketch cannot have been a casual witness to the following events. The two men, who were repeatedly seen with the boy in connection with the park bench in the Bruno-Asch-park at around 3.20 p.m., before the crime, may have been drug addicts or men from the alcoholic scene that already existed at this time in the 1990s.
A witness observed Tristan before the crime in the company of an unknown man to whom the identikit picture later matched. The witness also revealed that the perpetrator knew his way around the area, as she believed that she had seen the perpetrator several times. The Czech road map of Germany, which was later found in the rucksack the perpetrator had initially taken with him, fits this picture perfectly. The map might have in possession of a person belonging to the homeless scene around the train station in Hoechst. Perhaps the two unknowns led Tristan to the perpetrator. A lot of rumours circulated about the victim after the crime. He had gone on for prostitution, dealt drugs, got into bad circles. None of this could be proven.
The witness, whose dog he had petted, probably only saw the unknown men from behind as she walked away with her dog and that Tristan was sitting in the middle between the two men. Whether he already felt threatened here was not revealed. Shortly afterwards, the murderer and his later victim met between 3:30 and 3:45 p.m. at the southern tunnel entrance about 400 meters from the park bench, he was seen by the lady with the dog earlier.
Like a slaughter
During autopsy no. 282/98, it became apparent that the boy had been severely beaten or kicked, and was strangled from behind as if in a headlock, before the perpetrator almost decapitated his victim with a cut through the neck of the boy. What happened in the minutes of the crime: Several youths, who also wanted to take the shortcut through the dark tunnel, observed someone standing bent over something, they could not see what and decided at that moment to take another route. Probably they found the perpetrator during the act of killing and did not realise this fact. This observation corresponded approximately with the time of the crime and the overall event, as the police were able to reconstruct based on forensic evaluations.
The perpetrator then dragged his victim into the almost 100-metre-long tunnel before continuing his ritualistic craft, always in danger of being surprised at any moment. In an exercise book, the perpetrator wiped the blade, leaving the negative of a kitchen knife he used for his cruel deed.
He placed Tristan's sneakers across the legs of the corpse as if he wanted to undo what he had done. He covered his face with the boy's jacket. Probably out of the rush and because he had been massively disturbed in the execution of the crime by something or someone, he made a mistake when he threw out the boy's backpack, which contained the school books. A fragment of a bloody fingerprint was left behind.
Then he disappeared unseen, probably in wet and bloodstained clothes.
Later, a youth worker informed the police after children told him about the discovery of a corpse at about 5 p.m.
It is undoubtedly clear that the perpetrator was a severely disturbed personality when he almost expertly removed the testicles from the corpse, which was then bled out in the Liederbach, and took pieces of muscle tissue and performed another draping of the body at the scene of the crime. According to the investigating inspector, the perpetrator took about 2 kg of the boy's meat with him, which may indicate cannibalism. The killer had pulled off Tristan's clothes and made an incision above the pubic bone. The killer took these pieces, which he had taken from Tristan. The mutilation and injury picture, which the forensic doctors then determined in an autopsy lasting several hours, is unique to date. Later research by the homicide squad in the USA and other countries did not reveal any "repetitive handwriting" of the perpetrator. An unprecedented investigation was set in motion by the responsible homicide squad. Thousands of men were summoned to give a fingerprint. But the perpetrator, probably a young blond man with a ponytail, remained unknown. The man, described by several witnesses, is said to have searched for other victims between the Liederbach tunnel and the allotment garden settlement adjacent to the railway line at the time.
A few days later, someone called the police. The telephone call was recorded and is in German language. If anybody may recognize the voice, it does not matter in which language the call was.
On April 2, 1998, a telephone call reached a Frankfurt law firm. There, the caller claimed that he had screwed something up. The secretary gave the caller a telephone number of a law firm specialising in criminal law, but the unknown person did not respond to the other law company.
The rucksack from the Fishbone company in black was found about a year later 35 km away in a wooded area near Niedernhausen. In it the already mentioned road map of Germany from the Czech Republic and a blue garbage bag, but no signs of body parts. A witness said that he had seen the backpack a long time before.
More than a year after Tristan's death, his grave was dug, very neatly, and the earth was shovelled onto a plastic sheet. Maybe it was done by Satanists, perhaps the perpetrator who was unable to perform his ritual when he was interrupted during he committed the original crime.
Manfred Seel, the later serial killer, who was only exposed as such after his death, when his daughter found body parts in barrels in a garage in her home town of Schwalbach in the Taunus Mountains, retired as Tristan's culprit in 2016. After an unsuccessful attempt to take Seel's fingerprints on his clarinet to compare them with those at the scene of the crime in the Liederbach tunnel, even the body of the alleged serial killer was again autopsied. The fingerprints did not match.
Manfred Seel, Police Hesse
Tristan's father died in 2015, but a community of interests has been formed to preserve the memory of Tristan. To the website (German)
Therefore the Federal Criminal Police Office and the Homicide Department in Frankfurt are asking:
Who made observations on the day of the crime and did not yet or not wholly inform the police?
Who knew Tristan or people from his environment?
Who suspected a particular person as the perpetrator?
It could be conspicuous, for example, that someone has changed his behaviour, expressed suspicion or left his usual living environment without any recognisable reason (escape).
One part of the crime probably took place in the Liederbach. The perpetrator's trousers and shoes could, therefore, have been at least partially soaked. Who noticed a person with soaked and/or bloodstained clothing on the day of the crime?
Description of offender according to identikit picture
approx. 175 cm tall
Around 1998 about 20 to 30 years old (today between 40 and 60 years old)
unkempt appearance
pale face
slender - even described as lean - figure
scar in the area of the upper lip, possibly
"Harelip.
Dark blond, greasy, long hair, which is or was worn as a plait or ponytail
The Frankfurt Criminal Investigation Department, therefore, asks persons who know the man depicted and described to report to the Specialist Commissariat for Homicide Offences (K 11), telephone number 069-75551108, or any other police station. (Jürgen Linker, 069-75582100)
The public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt/Main has suspended a reward of 15,000 euros for information leading to the investigation and capture of the perpetrator(s). The awarding of the reward is subject to the exclusion of legal recourse. The reward is not intended for officials whose professional duty includes the prosecution of criminal acts.
A further reward in the amount of 5.000,-- Euro has been offered by a private person and is valid for an unlimited period of time.
Notes to the Frankfurt Homicide Department:
Phone +49 (0) 69 - 755 51108 (office hours)
Phone +49 (0) 69 - 755 53111 (Criminal Records Service)
or any other police station
While others are fighting for survival worldwide, others are making a fake lottery to make a good profit on the Corona crisis
Extremely dissocial elements use the corona crisis to enforce their idea of profit. From Johannesburg comes the last exhibit of an alleged lottery from Norway, which of course does not exist. The scammers want personal data to commit other crimes. What a construction company in the Western Cape is supposed to have to do with the Norwegian lottery is marked in the stars. Even here it is identity theft.
Straight into the electronic trash bin, even if the perpetrators flood the mailboxes this time too.
Don't answer, don't disclose any data.
Here the opener of the scammer gang:
This is to inform you that you have been
selected for a cash prize of €3,000,000
(EUR) held on the 30th of March 2020 in Oslo (Norway)
The selection process was carried out through
random selection in Our computerized email
selection system (ESS) Oslo Norway. Fill the
below:
1.Full Name
2.Full Address
3.Marital Status
4.Occupation
5.Age
6.Sex
7.Nationality
8.Country Of Residence
9.Telephone Number
Send the filling details back to me, using the below email for quicker
response.
Agent Name: Mr. Garrett Morris
Tel: +47024091949
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Statistics show that the death toll is currently rising
Even Donald Trump has understood that it is not a cold that goes away like this.
His press conference tonight was like a funeral.
In the United States, up to 250,000 deaths are expected.
The virus has been underestimated. In New York, the death toll of infected people is exceptionally high.
Trump swore in one of his usual speeches, in which he praised himself and his followers "over the green clover", the Americans for two very, very painful weeks.
Spain has again suffered 849 victims within 24 hours, a total of 8,189 people have fallen victim to the COVID-19 epidemic.
In Italy, the scapegoat has been identified by right-wing haters. agitator number 1, Matteo Salvini, pointed at Germany.
The truth is different:
Germany has accepted nearly 50 Italian #COVID19 patients so far, in a show of European solidarity.
Most of them were airlifted to hospitals in specially-equipped air force planes. pic.twitter.com/CBpdR39HPj
A comedian, Tullio Solenghi, had given him a good start with a downright hate speech against Germany. The frontman of the right-wing scum took this as an opportunity to demonstrate his political incompetence once again in the parliament in Rome.
The crisis does not end in Iran. The country, which is struggling with UN sanctions because of its controversial nuclear program, is asking for help from abroad.
