This is The Guardian.
Today, the fall of Germany's ex-spymaster.
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It was just before nine last Tuesday morning
when police swarmed the red brick house in Nordvalde, close to the Dutch border in Western Germany.
It looked like a terror operation, with masked officers entering the property en masse.
But when they emerged with their suspect, he wasn't even handcuffed.
It was his age.
Or maybe his reputation, because the white-haired 80-year-old being taken into custody was August Hanning,
the former head of Germany's spy agency, the BND.
The arrest may have been genteel, but his alleged crimes could barely be more serious.
Espionage, treason, selling thousands of classified documents to foreign powers.
The allegations strike at the heart of Germany's intelligence community and come as officials
warn of an increasingly aggressive campaign of foreign espionage and sabotage.
The Guardian's Berlin correspondent Kate Connolly watched with the rest of Germany as the drama unfolded.
It was pretty seismic.
I think we'd have to go back to the Cold War and the arrest of an East German