The right-wing extremist murders in Hanau, Germany, one year on
One year after the Hanau murders, when right-wing extremist Tobias Rathjen killed nine strangers eight men and one woman aged between 20 and 37 the background to this crime has still not been clarified.
The authorities are sticking to their version of a “confused lone perpetrator,” who also injured six others, some seriously, in the attack. Many unanswered questions point to links to right-wing terrorist networks that reach deep into the state. The murders are the result of profoundly right-wing politics.
For the bereaved, the enumeration of the names of those killed (#Saytheirnames) is more than a duty to prevent the memory of their loved ones from being cast into oblivion. It is a symbol for the active fight against right-wing terrorism. They want to ensure that Hanau is “not a transit station, but the final terminus of right-wing terrorism,” as the father of one of those killed put it.
Ein Jahr nach Hanau-Attentat: Das endlose Leiden der Angehörigen
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The Hanau Protocols: Aftermath of a Deadly Racist Attack
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