Thirty Years Next March

Here things are happening again, even though it will really start to get chaotic next month again.
Then I will have to take several trips to Berlin. First for a medical examination for my retirement application. Then for the press conference at the Berlin Wall Museum on 10 March - the 30th Anniversary of Dirk's disappearance. That day will be especially tough. And a few days later there is that invitation to a presentation made by an American who actively helped East German refugees during the Cold War era. More about that later.
The art exhibition benefitting the Dirk Schiller Case will also take place in March. The artist has painted a picture just for Dirk that. There will be a lottery with tickets, and the winner will get the art work. As soon as I have a photo of the painting, I will put it on the blog. The proceeds from the lottery will be put into a special account for the Dirk Schiller Case.
So it goes on, the search and the battle. Even the attempt by the German authorities to declare my son officially dead in order to avoid the effort of investigations cannot stop me. In the murder case of a little girl that was abducted and cruelly killed 27 years ago, the public prosecutor secretly opened the investigations again so that the 30-year deadline would not pass without an attempt to solve the case. That was in Bavaria and on the national news last week. In another mysterious disappearance of a woman 15 or 16 years ago the police just picked up their investigations again; the German Crime Show "Aktenzeichen XY" once again aired a request for witnesses to come forward. Even without having any new evidence.
In the case of my son's abduction there is a concrete witness who works for the German media today. And there is a trace that the Stern TV Show has brought up. But in this case there is also concrete evidence that the East German Secret Service (Stasi) had/have something to do with the dirty game ...
And apparently only for that explosive reason the German authorities would rather declare my son officially dead than investigate.v




