Vor einer Polizeiwache in Schwalmstadt erschießen Beamte eine 20-Jährige. Zuvor soll sie eine Waffe auf die Ordnungshüter gerichtet haben. Nun geben die Ermittler bekannt, dass die junge Frau keine funktionsfähige Waffe bei sich trug. Eine vor der Polizeistation im nordhessischen Schwalmstadt erschossene 20-Jährige hat keine scharfe Waffe bei sich gehabt. Ihre Waffe habe einer scharfen Waffe "zum Verwechseln ähnlich" gesehen, teilte das hessische Landeskriminalamt in Wiesbaden mit. Ob sie vor den tödlichen Schüssen auf sie am Donnerstag tatsächlich auf die Polizisten geschossen habe, sei unklar. Die Frau habe keine Waffe mit Munition verwendet, wie sie etwa von der Polizei getragen werde, erläuterte ein Sprecher der Staatsanwaltschaft. Es könne sich um eine Schreckschusspistole oder Softair-Waffe handeln. Hinweise auf einen politischen, terroristischen oder ähnlichen Hintergrund gebe es nicht. Zu ihren Motiven und den näheren Hintergründen könnten derzeit noch keine weiteren Angaben gemacht werden, hieß es. Panorama 24.10.24 20-Jährige greift Beamte an Polizisten erschießen Frau in Hessen Den bisherigen Ermittlungen zufolge sei die Frau in der Nacht zum Donnerstag bereits aufgefallen weil sie betrunken Auto gefahren und von einem Unfall geflüchtet sei In der Polizeistation sei ihr Blut abgenommen worden Anschließend sei sie wieder entlassen worden Gegen 6 Uhr am Donnerstagmorgen sei sie auf den Hof der Polizeistation zurückgekehrt und im Auto sitzen geblieben Als sich vier Polizisten dem Auto näherten sei sie ausgestiegen und habe eine Waffe auf die Beamten gerichtet Daraufhin sollen zwei Polizisten auf die Frau geschossen haben dass die 20-Jährige von mindestens zwei Kugeln getroffen wurde Der Polizei war sie zuvor wegen Straßenverkehrsdelikten bekannt gewesen wegen des Verdachts des Totschlags ermittelt Everything you need to know about the prisons explored in Netflix's Inside the World's Toughest Prisons Netflix docuseries Inside the World's Toughest Prisons has returned to the platform with its fourth season which sees host and falsely convicted ex-prisoner Raphael Rowe explore four more dangerous detention centres Rowe has visited ruthless jails in Papua New Guinea as well as rehabilitation centres in Belize and Norway – but what about the slammers of season four Here's everything you need to know about the toughest prisons explored in the docuseries' fourth season situated in the Paraguay neighbourhood of the same name is considered to be one of the most dangerous prisons on Earth because it is the most dangerous place in this country.\" Home to 3,000 inmates despite being built to store just 800 with hundreds of prisoners forced to sleep in the open \"deadly violence and drugs are a way of life\" in Tacumbu resulting in a huge disparity between the poorest prisoners who search through the prison trash for food scraps to cook and sell and the rich drug lords who run cartels from their cells and live a life of prison luxury Police have previously raided cells to find drug lord Jarvis Chimenes Pavao living in a three-room cell The drug lord was charging rent for prisoners to stay in the unit Schwalmstadt prison holds some of the country's most dangerous men but through a radical therapeutic approach they force their inmates to confront the issues that led them down their path who have committed some of the most heinous crimes into people \"you'd be happy to live next door to\" which is one of eight prisons in Mauritius is one of Africa's most ruthless detention centres and holds some of the country's worst criminals these dangerous inmates live in fear of the \"extreme new regime\" enforcing harsh punishments for the smallest infringement of rules There's no way no one can help you,\" one prisoner says in the documentary Equipped with 550 cameras and walls 7 metres high with murderers and drug smugglers worried about the consequences of committing minor rule violations Melrose does give prisoners the chance to change their ways and learn valuable skills – with the series' third episode looking at the inmates gaining culinary experience in the prison kitchen Based in the South African country of Lesotho Maseru prison is an impoverished detention centre \"Many are HIV positive and sexual assaults are a way of life inside the prison,\" the docuseries says \"One of the things that's striking me is the level of poverty,\" Rowe says whilst visiting Maseru prison Due to the squalid conditions within the prison gang violence and sexual assault are a common occurrence Here's everything you need to know about the toughest prisons explored in the docuseries' fourth season "I'm quite nervous about going in there because it is the most dangerous place in this country." "deadly violence and drugs are a way of life" in Tacumbu Raphael Rowe in Inside the World's Toughest PrisonsBased in northern Hesse in Germany Schwalmstadt prison holds some of the country's most dangerous men into people "you'd be happy to live next door to" is one of Africa's most ruthless detention centres and holds some of the country's worst criminals these dangerous inmates live in fear of the "extreme new regime" enforcing harsh punishments for the smallest infringement of rules There's no way no one can help you," one prisoner says in the documentary Melrose does give prisoners the chance to change their ways and learn valuable skills – with the series' third episode looking at the inmates gaining culinary experience in the prison kitchen NetflixBased in the South African country of Lesotho "Many are HIV positive and sexual assaults are a way of life inside the prison," the docuseries says "One of the things that's striking me is the level of poverty," Rowe says whilst visiting Maseru prison you are agreeing to site title privacy policy This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. 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Holiday brochuresNeed inspiration of where to go next Request a free brochure and start your journey A long-haired rock fan picks up a guitar in a music store and goes to strum a particular voicing of an A minor chord The employee points at a sign reading "No Stairway to Heaven" as his popular Saturday Night Live character Wayne looks down the barrel of the camera and utters the iconic line Led Zeppelin's rock epic was only 21 years old when this scene from the 1992 hit comedy Wayne's World was released but already the reputation of the song was evident - that this much-loved guitar classic had been played to death the scene was reportedly based on a real sign that was beginning to pop up in American music stores around that time 'Stairway to Heaven' is now 50 years old and continues to enjoy/endure its much-loved/overplayed status something all the more remarkable when you consider it was never released as a commercial single and that it clocks in at eight minutes long or more than twice the length of your typical radio track The song was believed to have been written in a Welsh cottage named Bron-Y-Aur where Led Zeppelin members Robert Plant and Jimmy Page (along with their partners and a couple of roadies) retreated after gruelling back-to-back European and North American tours in early 1970 The story of this song being written in the Welsh hills in a cottage with no running water or electricity or toilet has become part of the Led Zeppelin legend under oath during the song's recent copyright tussles (more on that later) Page revealed it was actually written at the less romantic Headley Grange a former workhouse-turned-recording studio south-west of London - a disclosure that no doubt disappointed the thousands of Led Zeppelin fans who made the pilgrimage to western Wales to visit "the birthplace of 'Stairway to Heaven'" The song was recorded over the winter of 1970-71 as part of the sessions for the band's technically untitled fourth album - better known as Led Zeppelin IV Plant recalled sitting by the fire with Page to write the lyrics in the freezing cold and for some reason I was in a very bad mood," Plant recalled years later according to Mick Wall's exhaustive band biography When Giants Walked the Earth "Then all of a sudden my hand was writing out the words 'There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold/And she's buying a stairway to heaven...' "I just sat there and looked at the words and then I almost leapt out of my seat." The band was impressed enough to include the lyrics on the inner sleeve of the album - the first time Led Zeppelin had done so The song and the album were released on November 8 but the band had been playing the eight-minute epic live since March of that year to a somewhat underwhelming response as the band's bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones recalled "They were all bored to tears waiting to hear something they knew," Jones told the BBC That response changed once the album came out and Atlantic Records repeatedly begged Led Zeppelin to release it as a single ever going to be released as a single," Page told Mick Wall "The whole thing was we wanted people to hear it in the context of the album "I said it will help the album sell because it's not a single (and) I knew the minute it was a single the next thing they would want it to be an edited version The ploy worked and Led Zeppelin IV became one of the biggest selling albums ever - in America it's one of only six albums to sell more than 20 million copies and worldwide certified sales put it as the fifth biggest-selling record of all time Atlantic Records sent promo copies of 'Stairway to Heaven' to American radio stations which lapped up the track despite its monumental length It's all the more remarkable when you consider the song's contents - it has no conventional chorus it opens with a medieval-sounding combination of recorders and acoustic guitar the vocals don't start until almost one minute into the song the drums don't join in until more than four minutes in and the last two and a half minutes feel like a completely different song It was on AM radio in Australia that a young Ash Naylor first heard 'Stairway to Heaven,' long before he became frontman for Melbourne band Even and go-to-guitarist for the likes of Paul Kelly The Church and various Beatles and Led Zeppelin tributes Naylor recalls being 11 and taping Led Zeppelin songs off the radio before eventually buying Led Zeppelin IV on cassette followed by the sheet music for 'Stairway to Heaven.' "I didn't realise that the sheet music was for beginner guitar .. so the chord shapes on the sheet music were open chords down in the first and second fret they weren't the barre chords that Jimmy Page would play on the recording," he said He first performed the song at a high school talent show in the mid-'80s and more recently as part of semi-regular Led Zeppelin tribute shows around Australia "I've probably listened to this song for the best part of 40 years .. I (find) something new about the song that just intrigues me and just captivates me," he said "Obviously the Telecaster solo cuts a swathe through that dense scrubland of beautiful electric 12-strings but those double-tracked Fender electric 12-strings that Jimmy Page put on that song is one of the most creamy intoxicating sounds ever committed to tape it makes me feel like I've just taken a musical Valium." a music panel assembled by Rolling Stone magazine voted 'Stairway to Heaven' as #31 on a list of the greatest songs of all time declaring that "all epic anthems must measure themselves against 'Stairway to Heaven'" It was the latest accolade for a song that regularly tops radio and magazine countdowns of the greatest rock songs ever New York guitarist Steph Paynes was rediscovering Led Zeppelin finding it "amazingly refreshing" after years of playing jazz "(I thought) why not just indulge my fantasy and put a group together and play Led Zeppelin music for fun," Paynes explained "And then I thought it'd be much more fun if it were all girls." The all-female tribute band Lez Zeppelin was born It's still going strong and touring the world 17 years later and has even won the approval of Jimmy Page himself But when Lez Zeppelin were putting their first setlists together back in 2004 "It's probably one of the greatest songs ever "It's hard to do because it could so easily be sappy (so) we steered away from it for the first six or seven years "It can be done; we've done it a couple of times "I'm not even talking about (playing) the right notes - I'm talking about the way that song just has to begin and build in the middle and then be absolutely glorious at the end "The thing that's greatest about it is the compositional brilliance of it - the layers start to come on and the lyrics start to get more sparkling and the whole thing builds in a beautifully compositional way so that by the end of it you've reached a different level "I think the whole thing is (a) near-perfect song of its type It's not just the guitar playing or the vocals or the message "It's the way the whole thing holds together and works as a composition." seems to pop up in the news every few years helping to keep it fresh in people's minds two years after the band broke up in the wake of drummer John Bonham's death Christian televangelists in America began to claim the song contained secret Satanic messages that could be heard when the record was played backwards Led Zeppelin was an easy target - the band had helped create the stereotype of "sex and the band was renowned for their contingent of groupies which spawned the infamous "mud shark" incident and Page's disturbing relationship with a teenage girl On top of that Page was renowned for his interest in the occult and mysticism particularly the works of controversial occultist Aleister Crowley While the backmasking claims were denied (and patently ridiculous) an author Thomas W Friend wrote a detailed analysis of the secret Satanic messages hidden within Led Zeppelin IV Equally persistent were the allegations of plagiarism Led Zeppelin has more than 20 songs in their back catalogue "that consisted While these pre-existing pieces have sometimes been credited, other times they haven't, and have resulted in lawsuits. 'Stairway to Heaven''s likeness to the song 'Taurus' by Californian band Spirit - a group Led Zeppelin toured with - had been discussed as far back as the 70s and was mentioned in the liner notes of a Spirit album re-issue in 1996 The matter was eventually resolved in favour of Led Zeppelin in 2020 as well as putting the song back in the news Led Zeppelin reunions after John Bonham's death have been few and far between but the question of "will they play 'Stairway'?" always accompanies the gig This is partly due to Robert Plant's apparent ambivalence towards the song - he donated $US10,000 to a radio station in Portland Oregon if they promised never to play the song again 'Stairway to Heaven' was a lowlight in a disastrous reunion set for Live Aid in 1985 It was also at the heart of a massive band argument prior to their performance at a 1988 gig to mark the 40th anniversary of Atlantic Records - the band which included John Bonham's son Jason on drums was at the O2 Arena in London in December 2007 at a concert to honour the passing of Ahmet Ertegun founder of Atlantic Records and friend of the band Plant agreed to play 'Stairway' - buried in the middle of the set - despite having spent the previous 30 years trying to hide from the song said "everyone was waiting for 'Stairway'" despite new waves of musical trends over the past 50 years temporarily rendering sweeping rock epics "obsolete" "It's such a wonderful piece of music that it's always going to be discovered by some new generation," he said "I think Jimmy Page says himself that it sort of crystallizes everything Zeppelin was about - it's got folk it's got one of the best drum tracks ever committed to tape and it's got the secret weapon of John Paul Jones on keyboards saying that as long as Led Zeppelin are still considered one of the all-time great bands 'Stairway to Heaven' will hold its place among the important rock songs "It's a defining moment in Led Zeppelin's trajectory - it marks the apex of their career," she said amazing stuff (in their back catalogue) that it would be limiting to just look at 'Stairway' as 'the thing' that Led Zeppelin did but it's really a special piece in their canon." She described the song as a victim of its own success "'Stairway' is a bit like the Mona Lisa," Paynes said "You go to the Louvre and it's this little picture and you think you've seen it a million times Read the full story on the ABC here Led Zeppelin sauntered onto the stage at Western Springs Stadium and put on one of the greatest shows New Zealand had ever seen Former Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant received a "whole lotta love" at the Grammy Awards on Sunday winning five prizes including album of the year for an acclaimed collaboration with bluegrass… Led Zeppelin will face a new trial over whether it stole the opening guitar riff for its 1971 anthem 'Stairway to Heaven' Opinion - The Rolling Stones have yanked Brown Sugar from their US tour but if musicians' content tiptoed around subjects some of the world's music legends wouldn't have got off the ground In Case You Missed It RSS Follow RNZ News the Netflix series had looked at Norway’s Halden prison it’s almost like host Raphael Rowe has found somewhere close to Halden but still not lightyears away from brutal prison life The season 4 premiere of Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons looked at the Tacumbú prison in Paraguay Rowe arrives as Schwalmstadt Prison in a sleek-looking transport van and the place immediately strikes him like a fortress which he assures us makes any recipient feel like an animal such as not being overcrowded and the availability of in-depth therapy but it at least tries to rehabilitate people There are only 10 people on Rowe’s assigned wing of the prison and The idea is that he is trusted with the responsibility of whether he wishes to freely roam through his prison wing Rather than immediately being in conflict with them Dominic has been in prison for 11 years for murder and Sacha is there for at least 4 years over drug trafficking and assault charges Dominic maintains that the murder was unplanned as he lost his temper and stabbed someone in a fight He works with an introverted man named Dirk who has been at Schwalmstadt prison for 5 years and barely communicates with his fellow prisoners Dirk is a 26-year-old man with a history of amphetamine addiction who is serving a 10-year sentence for manslaughter Dirk doesn’t use his outside privileges out of social anxiety but Rowe persuades him to enter the prison yard Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons takes us into one of the prison’s therapy sessions where therapists Gina and Michael put Sacha in what is called “the hot seat.” He reveals the details of his violent incident which involved breaking someone’s jaw in front of his wife and kids at a public pool Sacha says he would apologize to his victims now but Rowe suspects that he’s doing therapy mostly to reduce his sentence people in the prison seem to feel that group sessions are better than 1-on-1 meetings with a social worker better prisons showcased on Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons Schwalmstadt Prison encourages prisoners to take up a trade which supposedly can translate into work once a sentence has been served Rowe finds out their metalwork is to construct a door for the prison who is in prison for a minimum of 13 years for shooting his ex-wife He has at least 6 more years to his sentence Raphael also finds the prisoners have some leisure activities including football (what we Americans call “soccer”) Though some would criticize the prison for allowing TVs and PlayStations a Guard named Sven defends them as an element of dignity and respect Though some inmates still can make weapons inmates are more likely to get in trouble for smuggling in cellphones (an inmate named Dennis gets punished for doing that in order to talk to his family) We see another session where prisoners are tested to see if they can keep cool when someone refuses to give up a seat who grew up in a foster home and is now in prison for the third time for stealing and murder He admits that he and his friends beat someone to death over what he admits is a trivial matter Spencer is one of the ones considered “beyond help.” So Although Spencer seems nice enough at first he has had his sentence extended three times He has also had his teeth knocked out (though he does have dentures now) it seems part of his violence stems from his experiences in the prison when it belonged to the “German Democratic Republic.” What are your thoughts on Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons © 2025 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only Betting and gambling content is intended for individuals 21+ and is based on individual commentators' opinions and not that of Minute Media or its affiliates and related brands All picks and predictions are suggestions only and not a guarantee of success or profit If you or someone you know has a gambling problem crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER 7 Disney shows we'd love to see rebooted