Mr. Von Kristallschloss submitted a full report of his incident on the evening of the speech, which was later shared with Reyji.
Mr. Von Kristallschloss was attacked by an unknown person in the audience. As he regained consciousness lying on the ground, he discovered a man near him removing a stone from the pavement. He assumed that it was this man who had attacked him in order to get to this position. When this man noticed that he was getting up again, he left the stone and ran off, whereupon another man immediately ran off in other directions. Mr. Von Kristallschloss alerted the city guard officers on the stage via shouts and he himself pursued the man who had removed the stone to the edge of the audience, where he was able to overwhelm him. Directly from there he tried to follow the other man and was indeed able to confront him at the end of a side street. The man refused arrest. A scuffle ensued. Mr. Von Kristallschloss hit the man with his fist. The man drew a firearm. At this moment, two officers from the city guard arrived. Both were able to confirm that the man was about to open fire. Mr. Von Kristallschloss was forced to defend himself in order to protect himself and the officers. He knocked the man down with a stone. The man was then searched and the firearm seized. At the same time, an officer from the city guard found another firearm and fragments from a detonator in the trouser pocket of the man who had removed the stone. The two men were taken away at the end of the speech. One was taken to a cell at the nearby city police station. The other man was taken directly to a hospital.
After the speech ended, officers from the city guard were able to find the remains of the detonator scattered around the intersection. The man had broken the detonator and thrown the pieces away while running. When the stage was dismantled, two kilograms of explosives were found. A detonating wire had been hidden under the pavement in advance and laid from the detonator to a position in the audience. It was a modern, expensive explosive on which the dogs were not well trained. It would have been a big explosion that would have caught the audience as well as the perpetrators themselves. One of the stageworkers had not come to dismantle the stage. A search was launched for the man.
The man who had the detonator was questioned at the city guard station. He denied everything. He had no weapon. He had no detonator. He knew nothing about explosives. He had not been there with the other man. He had only been there to hear the speech so he could write a review. He was crying. He wanted to see his daughter. He claimed it was all a conspiracy. Still within the first interrogation, he admitted that he had been there with the other man, but he continued to deny everything else.
The next day, it was proven that he had acquired the firearm himself from a black market dealer two years earlier, whereupon he admitted that it was his and henceforth claimed that he had only carried it out of resistance to the new weapons law. Carrying firearms in public had been illegal in Rosenberg since that year. Normally it would still only be a fine, but the square in front of the stage was also a government-restricted area. Carrying a firearm in this area was a serious violation of the weapons law. An exact penalty was not specified, but this alone would have ensured the man a longer prison sentence.
The man in hospital was unable to make any useful statement. He had suffered brain damage as a result of being hit with the stone to the head.
The following week, the stageworker was arrested near his home. The man was a drug addict and had returned home intoxicated. He confessed on the spot that he had been paid by an anonymous person to lay the wire. He said he could guess that it was for explosives, but that he had not planted it himself and did not know who was responsible. He had only been paid to lay the wire and keep his mouth shut. The apartment was not rented in his name. Firearms, drugs and many documents were seized in the apartment. In the course of the further investigation, it came to light that the man had been a member of the radical left-wing alliance 'Red Horizon' just a few years prior. This was a group that was responsible for various protests in its time. They hated Marah's parents and then later Marah out of deep belief. They were hypocrites. They were only interested in money. Broken down, they blamed them for pretty much every war in the world because Baele was the biggest arms exporter in the world. At the same time, Baele was not taking in refugees from war zones. At the same time, the border guards had always had orders to sink unauthorized ships. Most of the actions ended in material damage, but at the end the group also carried out two bomb attacks on government buildings. Then there was a severe crackdown. Most of the senior members were arrested and the group broke up. However, the man claimed that it had nothing to do with his past. He just wanted the money to buy drugs.
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The stageworkers was initially sent to a rehab clinic. The man from the hospital was sent to a nursing home. The man from prison went to court.
Even at the trial, the latter still denied his involvement, but his fingerprints were on the detonator and there was plenty of evidence to prove a motive. The two men in the audience were known critics of Marah. Both had lost a lot of money in the banking crisis. Less than a month before the speech, the defendant had been left by his wife, who had taken their daughter with her. Just a week and a half before the speech, he had said in an interview with a right-wing liberal newspaper: 'It would be good if she finally died'. He was referring to Marah. The comment was not printed, but the journalist testified to it during the trial. Shortly before the end of the trial, the defense lawyer called for an interruption, then after the break, the defendant tearfully made a full confession. He had planned the attack together with two friends. The intention was to blow himself up at the intersection together with Marah and all her followers. The man was convicted.
His second friend was an officer of the city guard. According to the confession, he had bribed the stageworker, procured the explosives and planted them himself. The officer had left the service weeks ago. He was found dead in his apartment. He had shot himself. Among other things, there were more explosives, other weapons and a lot of cash in the apartment. Some of the items were from raids or directly owned by the city guard. It turned out that this man was a senior member of an underground group called 'Aine Heimat'. This was a radical right-wing group that believed in a race theory. They were responsible for many acts of violence and were always in the headlines around the world. They hated Marah's guts, not only for having someone like Reyji at her side, but also for her treatment of the old nobility, for her support of countries like Aebien and Hylla and especially for the lax borders with these countries. Besides being hateful, the man was also very pedantic. He kept a record of everything. He wrote things down, like the next day's shower. He also had a book of things like what he had stolen, where, with whom and when, and when and where he had met. With the help of his notes, 15 more officers were removed from duty and charged across the country. The SSW also carried out 11 major raids and was able to arrest many important members of the group. It was a downright purge. Nevertheless, it was not the end of the group and certainly not the last that would be heard of them.
There were many attacks on Marah and they all went off in a similar way. The only difference this time was that the people were higher up in the hierarchy than usual.
Mr. Von Kristallschloss was promoted to the military, but then his father died and he returned home to take care of his mother. He kept his promise to send Marah a love letter by owl every month and continued to do so even after Marah had publicly asked him several times to not do it.
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