Word: gert
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last time I saw Petra Kelly was at a conference in my home country, Mexico, in September of 1991. She and Gert Bastian had come to attend the Group of 100's "Morelia Symposium: Approaching the Year 2000," which consisted of writers and ecologists from throughout the world...
...Gert was the more quiet of the two and Petra did most of the talking for both of them. They were incredibly close and virtually inseparable and would often go off on their own during the conference. Having lived together for several years, they were not only lovers but also partners in their relentless activism in the Green movement in Germany. Gert was 25 years her elder, yet this difference in age seemed completely secondary to their relationship...
...Monday night, October 19, Petra and Gert's bodies were found by the police in their rented home near Bonn. Their corpses were badly decomposed, suggesting that they had been dead for at least three weeks. They had both been shot in the head and there was no sign of a struggle...
...cause of their deaths is still very unclear and confusing. Newspapers everywhere exclude the possibility of a third person being involved in the deaths. They suggest that Gert Bastian despaired and shot Petra Kelly in her sleep, then shot himself in the head, outside her bedroom. Some reports even suggest that it might have been a suicide pact...
Although they had been going through some very trying times (Gert had been in a car accident over the summer and both of them had severe financial difficulties), I do not believe that they would have given up hope and committed suicide. Petra was always full of enthusiasm and hope, even at the bleakest and most frustrating moments...