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Death on Hamburg's luxury waterfront

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Jörg Luyken
May 25, 2024
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Hafencity in Hamburg. Photo by Elias on Unsplash

Dear Reader,

On a single day last autumn, five Albanian labourers fell to their deaths while working on a prestige project in an exclusive district of Hamburg.

You could say that it was an accident waiting to happen.

Early in the morning on October 30th, the men were unloading bricks from a scaffolding that h…

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