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Friday April 17, 2015
On Germanwings plane crash
The event was broadcast live on several channels in Germany.
German President Joachim Gauck, expressed his dismay at the “senselessness” accident Germanwings and conveyed its support to the families of the 150 victims during the state funeral held at the Cologne Cathedral.
“We are united by grief, yes. For pain and a deep bewilderment. But also for mutual support, aid, being for the other. In the worth and need find us closer “, Gauck told some 1,400 guests, including 500 families of the victims and authorities in Germany, France and Spain.
The Gauck speech was one of the central points of the moving ceremony in the cathedral of Cologne, one of the largest in the world, which also included Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz, and the French Minister of Transport, Alain Vidalies, among other authorities.
The event was broadcast live on several channels in Germany, began with an ecumenical service and was accompanied by 150 candles lit in memory of the victims of flight crashed in the French Alps on March 24, including one for the passenger accused of causing a catastrophe purpose.
“Love is stronger than death,” said the archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki in charge of an office during which many of the assistants and managers readings could not hold back tears .
The family members and rescue groups present at the ceremony were small wooden angels as a symbol of company and motivation to find strength and comfort after the tragedy. In addition, school musicians who lost 16 students and two teachers in the accident interpreted a theme from the movie “Schindler’s List”.
In his speech, Gauck recalled the “shock” that caused the accident and found a second, “perhaps harder” the possibility that had been caused on purpose by the copilot blow, as indicated by all indications research.
“I do not really know what happened inside the passenger, what happened in your head in the second decisive,” said the president. “But we do know that his family also lost the March 24 a person who loved and left a hole in their lives as inexplicable to themselves and other family mode”.
“Maybe that’s what shocked us both: lack of sense of what happened,” Gauck completed. “In mourning and pain deep fear of the abyss of the human soul, of human existence in general adds. It scares We also bad, because there is psychology or technique that can eradicate the world.”
Gauck thanked the support of France in the rescue and the presence of Spanish Minister Fernandez Diaz as representative of the second largest number of victims in the accident after Germany.
“There were many deaths in Spain. Our two countries are particularly united in mourning”.
The German president, pastor, closed his emotional speech with an order. “I We wish everyone a star to guide us safely and clearly by the darkness of our lives That accompany and guide us and tell us. ‘You are not alone.’”
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