There are messages from which the following initially follows: nothing. Neither is the event linked to major issues such as social inequality or the climate catastrophe. There is still a lot to say – at least in the first moment when the causes are being determined, victims are being sought and identified – other than that something terrible has happened. And this is how the situation arises, which is repeatedly and often rightly criticized: reporters are besieging a place where the bereaved and investigators could really use undisturbed concentration. TV channels fill large periods of time with variations of the statement, which in terms of its actual content would be settled in five short words: We still know too little.