DDR border security authorities forbid passers-by and the West Berlin fire brigade to rescue Cetin Mert, a five-year-old Turkish boy. He fell into the Spree from a steep bank in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin; the entire width of the Spree belongs to East Berlin at this location.
It is the fourth fatality in this place and unleashes fierce public debate that finally leads to an agreement on rescues in Berlin border waterways on 29 October 1975.
Cetin Mert: Protest poster in Berlin-Kreuzberg (IV) (MfS photo: May 1975) (Photo: BStU, HA I 5861, Bl. 15)
In Stuttgart-Stammheim, the leading figures in the "Baader-Meinhof Group" go on trial: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Jan Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin.
