OTOMO Frieder Schlaich, D 2000

engl: Stuttgart in August 1989. A simple tram ticket check triggers a tragedy: When the asylum-seeker Frederic Otomo is caught without a ticket and detained, he starts to panick and runs off. A few hours later, when the Police close in on him on a bridge, he stabs two officers.

fr: Stuttgart, 1989. Un simple contrôle de ticket dans le tramway déclenche le drame: Frederic Otomo, demandeur d’asile, est saisi par la panique et prend la fuite après avoir bousculé les agents qui venaient de l’interpeller. 

sp: Stuttgart,1989. El solicitante de asilo, Frederic Otomo, es detenido en un tranvía durante control de pasajeros. Sintiéndose acosado y llevado por el pánico, se fuga.

"Bloodbath on open street" was the headline of a daily newspaper und it reports on "on one of the most serious crimes in the history of this city", the rainbow press knows "The butcher wanted to murder.". The minister of the interior cancels his vacation and re-opens the discussion around the deployment of firearms by the police, there is a call for stricter asylum legislation. Public opinion boiling over.