Daynote ,Svenson

MM-cliii     Thursday

2000-06-01

Ascention

A fair day. Not bright yet sunny and dry with the odd white cloud and temperatures rising to 22°C in the afternoon.

Ascension day is a public holiday here so no work and no news.

Well there was news. In Luxembourg a man is keeping a bunch of kids as hostages. Yesterday he went into a daycare center for kids, aged between 0.5 and 4 years, with a gun (of unspecified type). At first he demanded money and an escape taking the kids along, later he dropped the money and later still, after releasing some of the 42 kids he also didn't want to take the kids along. After releasing yet more kids his only remaining demand is a flight to Libya. (I guess he won't be welcome there.).
It is assumed he acts in some sort of revenge because, after a divorce, he has lost the right to visit his own kids some time ago after an (alleged) attempt to carry them off to Algeria (he is from Algerian origin). The news is however very vague about this.

The news has been dominated by this with regular bulletins repeating one another without actually disclosing news.

I fell into the trap. Again.
I use Roman numbers on my days and I happily applied five X-es for fifty while it should have been an L.
Found and corrected that during some reorganization.