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Erfurt (dpa / th) - One year after the racist murder attack with nine dead in Hanau, Hesse, state parliament members of the red-red-green coalition have called for a nationwide compensation fund for the victims of right-wing extremist violence.
Such a fund sends an important signal that the state is facing up to its responsibility, said SPD MP Dorothea Marx on Wednesday.
Politicians from the Left and the Greens made similar statements.
The left-wing MP Katharina König-Preuss criticized the fact that there was no compensation fund set up by the state for the relatives of the victims in Hesse.
Instead, it was proposed to provide two million euros in general for victims of crime in Hesse.
On February 19, 2020, a 43-year-old German shot nine people with foreign roots in Hanau, before allegedly killing his mother and ultimately himself.
Like König-Preuss and Marx, the Green MP Madeleine Henfling also referred to the compensation fund that had been set up in Thuringia for the relatives and victims of the murders of the Thuringian-based right-wing terrorist group “National Socialist Underground” (NSU).
A nationwide victim fund must be set up based on this model.
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