Frankfurt/Main (dpa/lhe) – On the occasion of the third anniversary of the Hanau attack, Frankfurt Mayor Nargess Eskandari-Grünberg (Bündnis 90/Grüne) warned against trivializing right-wing terror. “These are not accidental acts committed by individuals. Such acts of violence are embassy acts, they have a system. They are intended to intimidate, to give you the feeling that you are no longer safe anywhere. A climate of fear and threat should develop,” said them on Saturday at a memorial event in Frankfurt. She also called for tougher action against “intellectual arsonists who do not use violence themselves, but lay the breeding ground for the growth and stabilization of right-wing and racist resentment.”
On February 19, 2020, a 43-year-old German shot nine people in Hanau for racist reasons. He then killed his mother and himself.
“To this day I feel great anger at the assassin’s presumption of dividing people into belonging and not belonging,” said Frankfurt City Council Mayor Hilime Arslaner at the Frankfurt commemoration event. The nine victims were said to have been there by chance, but not accidental victims.
