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...failed to win enough votes to remain in the parliament. Over the years, she had fallen out with many of her fractious party colleagues and became a marginal figure. Her compatriots were shocked into remembrance of Kelly, however, when she and her longtime lover and fellow Green Party founder, Gert Bastian, were found dead in their Bonn house. The state of the corpses indicated that they had been dead for some weeks and that Bastian had either shot Kelly while she slept or with her acquiescence, before shooting himself. No note was left...
...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...
...been nominated for the Andrei Sakharov Award of $100,000, with which, if she had received it, she planned to open a human rights office in Germany. Both she and Gert Bastian had many projects for the future and were growing equally distressed at the tide of right-wing activism and violence in Germany, about which Gert had just published a very angry article...
...feel, just as nearly all of Petra and Gert's friends in Germany do, that the possibility of an assassination definitely does exist, if only because they had so many enemies. Not only did they both openly criticize the Right, they were also involved in many campaigns against the nuclear power industry. Speculating on their deaths, however, does nothing to help--although for me, going over the details is the only way I can try to understand something so senseless...