Hanau (dpa/lhe) – At a memorial service and other events this Sunday (11.30 a.m.) in Hanau, the nine victims of the racist attack three years ago will be remembered. Under the motto “Against forgetting – for tolerance and human dignity”, Hanau’s Lord Mayor Claus Kaminsky (SPD) and relatives of those killed want to speak to the participants on the market square. Before that (10:00 a.m.) a service is planned in the Marienkirche, at which the chairwoman of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, Annette Kurschus, will preach.
On February 19, three years ago, a 43-year-old German shot nine people in Hanau for racist reasons. He then killed his mother and himself.
Numerous representatives from politics, religious communities and public life are expected to attend the commemoration, including Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) and the Hessian Prime Minister Boris Rhein (CDU). This will be followed by a press conference with Faeser and Kaminsky in Hanau City Hall on the occasion of the handing over of a grant for the Hanau Center for Democracy and Diversity, as well as a rally and demonstration. In addition, the February 19th initiative, in which the bereaved and those affected had joined together, invites you to commemorate the two crime scenes in Hanau city center and in the Kesselstadt district in the evening.
