‘We lost nine people, but it was like it didn’t even matter … our troubles even got worse,’ says Cetin Gultekin, the brother of one of the victims of the Hanau shooting, two years after the attack
Gokhan Gultekin, Sedat Gurbuz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtovic, Vili Viorel Paun, Fatih Saracoglu, Ferhat Unvar, and Kaloyan Velkov—nine people—were killed, and five others wounded, when Tobias Rathjen attacked two shisha bars in the German town of Hanau on February 19, 2020. The assailant then went home to kill his mother and himself.
“There has been a 35 percent increase in firearms licences in two years since the attack. The more we called for guns to be taken from racists, the more they armed themselves. How can we feel safe?” he questions in a statement toThe attack in Hanau was not a one-off incident in Germany. It was preceded by two other right-wing extremist attacks in 2019—the assassination of Walter Lubcke and the anti-semitic Halle Synagogue attack.
German police recorded 23,604 crimes related to a far-right agenda in 2020, surpassing the previous record of 23,555 crimes in 2016 when the refugee influx was at its peak. A budget of approximately one billion euros was also created to fund the fight between 2021 to 2024, along with an additional 150 million euros for 2021. The funding was reportedly meant for research and prevention efforts, supporting civil society, etc.
"We will do all we can to stop radicalisation processes, dismantle right-wing extremist networks and systematically deprive extremists of their weapons," the ministry
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