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It seems to be suicide after a police arrest. In his last tweets he was supposedly announcing to take his life.
His account might have been hacked (maybe even by police). I am sure we will hear more of it the coming days. Source:
http://pastebin.com/yk8bgru5

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Still curious if he really committed suicide.
This whole affair sounds a bit fishy.

I wouldn't rule it out, but if it was, then police brutality may have been the reason indeed, since it seems to be a massive problem everywhere and especcially over there.
Those tweets make it too easy for people to dismiss this instance as nothing more than someone broadcasting their break from reality and thus creating an alibi for the police. Maybe they planted this, who knows?
Not that someone being harrassed by armed forces wouldn't easily lose his mind, it's more or less natural.

I'm sad that he ran "sudo apt-get autoremove" on himself.

I'd suggest (not) having more experience with police. They are the largest criminal gang in the world.

I heard he was beaten and sodomized. I'm not joking.

Well I've had friends in law related enforcement roles saying the only difference between them and criminal gangs is that they are sanctioned by the state. The particulars about laws and abiding by them didn't seem to bother them much.
But that's only me so consider that.

Yep, I have the same experiences.
All my contact with police did more harm than good and they deliberately seem to hire violent bullies without much self-control, since all the policemen I knew personally did fit the bill while the ones that would have been different were often not hired because they were "overqualified" with their school grades, even when it was about jobs dealing with criminal psychology, I'm not joking.
One guy in my former martial-arts club was a policeman too and although I had no problem with him and we got along pretty well, he was the most violent guy of us and lacked self-control even in a controlled training environment, hardly someone I would like to see having power over civilians in critical situations.

Needless to say, I was hunted around the block by a fat police car without any good reason when I was still a schoolboy attending a registered demonstration against the invasion of Irak. In addition to that, back then the army wasn't allowed to be present at demonstrations but it were.

Police and military are well known for standing above the law around here and the handling in courts of cases of documented police brutality and outright assaults is underlining this strongly.
See also the results of the trial about the police brutality at the "freedom instead of fear" (Freiheit statt Angst) demonstration 2009. It was filmed by so many cameras that you practically had it in 3D and the judge said in all ernesty, that the civilian would have been allowed to retaliate, wtf? You are not allowed to wear anything that is protecting you against violence on demonstrations in Germany (part of the "Schutzwafffenverbot") and he should have taken a wild guess to be allowed and should have tried to stand up against armoured and armed forces? Sure, he wasn't exactly McBain!

An example for unlawful police activity thanks to the B ND (modern German StaSi) regarding someones own home is the case of Andrej Holm, a social scientist who had complete observation of his whole house (therefore including his wife, daughter, etc...) for a year and was held in custody without any real reason because he wrote something quite true that our politicians didn't like (about prekarisation, gentrification, etc... hinting a bit at the artificial creation of people for slave labour). He eventually had to be let go because he did absolutely nothing unlawful although they tried very hard to find something.
One of the "reasons" they stated was, that he didn't always take his cell phone with him, making him untracable.
I guess we are all forced to always be tracable via our cell phone location in the modern world.

Although strangely anough the army seems to be less unlawful than the police around here, you can look up the story of "Philip Klever", the whistleblower from the Afghanistan conflict which really started the whole debate about participation here and nobody remembers him since the media tried to suppress his story in many cases.

Such cases never get settled, because there really is no separation of powers, the judiciary and executive power are completely in the hands of the legislative body.

Rest in piece Ian! :-(

Thanks for all the great work! I <3 Debian.

Sad news...
R.I.P.

Yeah, lets just throw our sovereignty out the window, that'll fix this mess...
He claimed to have been beaten and had his underwear pulled down by a female officer. No idea where you got sodomy from, but he never mentioned it.

Still not the place for it. And definitely not if you're going to drag conspiracy theories into this. Considering that there were those twitter posts a while back where he was threatening suicide,

While I'm a tad curious about why he wasn't hospitalized, this isn't the place for that sort of speculation either.

Hopefully he can RIP.