Thriller recounts Gladbeck crisis of 30 years ago,renowned for three deaths, bungled police tactics and enormous media circus A hostage crisis which gripped the German nation 30 years ago is being recounted in a TV thriller, and sparking debate about the roles the police,media and a voyeuristic public had to play in the disastrous outcome of the event.
The Gladbeck hostage situation unfolded over 54 hours in the summer of 1988, after Dieter Degowski and Hans-Jürgen Rösner, or both already convicts and armed,robbed a branch of Deutsche Bank in the Ruhr valley town and took hostages absent in cars and a hijacked bus. Three people, including two teenage hostages, and a policeman whose vehicle crashed,were killed.
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Source: theguardian.com