Overview
- The latest episode of Paul Ronzheimer’s SAT.1 series "Wie geht’s, Deutschland?" aired Tuesday and examines Germany’s bureaucracy through Zawatzki’s experience.
- Zawatzki, who acted as a first responder during the 2016 Breitscheidplatz truck attack that killed 12, says he has lived with PTSD since the event.
- He says assurances of quick, unbureaucratic support never materialized and recalls being told by a Berlin hotline that he was neither a victim nor a relative.
- Initial therapy and sick-pay coverage from his health insurer ended around mid-2017, and he was later sent an approximately 20-page questionnaire requesting details such as the truck’s license plate and the market’s address.
- Psychotherapist Rainer Rothe describes official non-recognition as a "second wound" and warns that bureaucracy can kill people, with no official response reported in the coverage.