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Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) - The Greens parliamentary group has defended the planned victim fund of the state of Hesse against criticism from Hanau.
"There is no equation of Volkmarsen and Hanau," said the Green parliamentary leader Mathias Wagner of the "Frankfurter Rundschau" (Saturday) with a view to the rampage in Volkmarsen and the racially motivated attack with nine dead in Hanau.
«How the fund will be structured is only now being discussed.
We Greens say: If there are attacks against our society, against our democracy, and that was undoubtedly the case in Hanau, then different services must be provided from this fund than with other crimes. "
The mayor of Hanau, Claus Kaminsky (SPD), had previously criticized in an open letter that the amount of two million euros earmarked for the planned victim fund of the state of Hesse was too low and the fund too unspecific because it was also aimed at those affected by other crimes.
This means that the fund “does not do justice to its special responsibility in the context of racist, right-wing terrorist and anti-Semitic violence,” said the letter to the parliamentary groups of the CDU, Greens, SPD and FDP.
According to the newspaper report, the families of the Hanau attack victims received almost 1.2 million euros in hardship benefits through the federal victim commissioner Edgar Franke.
The Hessian State Chancellery announced this in its answer to Wagner's questions that the newspaper had before them.
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The Green politician said that aid had to be long-term.
“In the first year, a lot of relief measures were initiated, be it looking after relatives or looking for a place to live.
According to the state government, material aid amounting to just under 1.2 million euros has already been provided for surviving dependents, the seriously injured and those directly affected by the terrorist attack.
In order to stabilize the aid, we launched the victim fund. "
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