Germany Seeks Answers A Year After Deadly Racist Shooting
By Femke COLBORNE
02/19/21 AT 12:54 PM
A year after nine people were killed in a racist shooting in the German city of Hanau, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday urged all Germans to unite against far-right extremism.
"Has the sadness gone? Has the pain subsided, the anger gone? Have all questions been answered? No. Absolutely not," Steinmeier told around 50 people gathered at an event in Hanau's Congress Park, scaled down due to Covid-19 restrictions.
"But as federal president I ask you: Let us not allow this evil act to divide us," he said.