German politician dies in Ireland

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A German politician has died in hospital in Ireland after she became unwell onboard a transatlantic flight.

She has been named tonight as Karin Strenz (53), a member of Angela Merkel’s CDU party.

Ms Strenz was travelling on a flight from Cuba to Germany when she suddenly fell ill this morning. She is understood to have been travelling with her husband at the time.

The plane was diverted to Shannon Airport early on Sunday morning and Ms Strenz was transferred to University Hospital Limerick, where she later died.

It is understood she suffered a possible “cardiac incident”.

Condor flight DE-199 was en route from Varadero in Cuba to Frankfurt when the crew declared a medical emergency while the flight was still west of Ireland.

The crew reported they had a female passenger on board who had fallen ill and requested cleared to divert to Shannon asking that emergency medical services be on standby for their arrival.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/german-mp-dies-in-irish-hospital-after-falling-ill-on-transatlantic-flight-40223294.html

RIP

AllForIt

Well that's sad to die so young.

<mod snip: pretty tactless - don't do that again>

expectationlost

she was facing jail for allegedly taking bribes from Azerbaijan https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/11528-german-operation-against-azerbaijani-laundromat-suspects

SouthWesterly

She went to Limerick hospital. Wonder was she seen in the corridor

Cuba is on Germany's risikogebiet list since 28th February. She shouldn't have been on that flight.
She wasn't on official business.
https://ga.de/news/politik/deutschland/cdu-abgeordnete-karin-strenz-kollabiert-auf-flug-aus-kuba_aid-56929217
"Strenz war offenbar privat unterwegs. Es habe sich um keine Dienstreise im Auftrag des Deutschen Bundestags gehandelt, sagte ein Parlamentssprecher auf Nachfrage." translates as on personal travel, not related to work of Government.
Returning from there she would have been expected to quarantine for 10 to 14 days. As a member of Parliament she should never have been on that flight.