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Berlin (dpa) - On the anniversary of the racially motivated attack in Hanau with nine dead, the anti-Semitism commissioner of the federal government, Felix Klein, called for cosmopolitanism and tolerance.
"The terrible attack in Hanau will always be a reminder of the dangers hatred and agitation are for our society and ultimately for each and every one of us," said the commissioner for Jewish life in Germany in the newspapers of the Funke media group (Thursday).
Society's response to this act of terrorism must be to stand together and bravely stand up for openness to the world, tolerance and democratic values.
A year ago, on February 19, 2020, the 43-year-old German Tobias R. shot nine people with foreign roots for racist motives in Hanau before allegedly killing his mother and ultimately himself.
The man had previously posted pamphlets and videos of conspiracy theories and racist views on the Internet.
This Friday (February 19), Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Hesse’s Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) want to take part in a memorial ceremony together with Hanau’s Lord Mayor Claus Kaminsky (SPD) and relatives of the dead.
Klein said: "Together we want to remember the victims and make it clear that there must be no place in our society for violence, racism and group-related misanthropy."
The victims were torn from the midst of society.
Anti-Semitism and racism are closely related, they want to «exclude, restrict, destroy».
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The deputy SPD federal chairman Serpil Midyatli made the AfD jointly responsible for the act of violence.
«Violent acts follow hatred and agitation in interviews or speeches.
The AfD is complicit in the Hanau attack.
She can't talk her way out of that, ”said Midyatli to the editorial network Germany (RND / Thursday).
The SPD politician criticized the fact that many questions about the crime were still unanswered.
«The questions of the bereaved are legitimate.
They want to know how things went, what omissions there were, why emergency calls were not received during the night.
You have a right to know.
All questions from relatives must be answered. "
In the past twelve months, the relatives had often called for the consequences of the act - above all, a more decisive opposition to the law.
They accused the authorities of not taking "warning signals" seriously enough.
Midyatli, who is herself the daughter of Turkish immigrants, told the RND that fear of right-wing extremist violent criminals had increased among people with immigrant backgrounds after the Hanau attack.
“The risk of falling victim to a terrorist attack is greater for people who look or my name like me.
That's so."
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According to the Baden-Württemberg Minister of the Interior, Thomas Strobl (CDU), the threat posed by politically motivated violent criminals remains unchanged one year after the attack.
"The dangers are still very high," said Strobl of the "Rheinische Post" (Thursday).
The digitization of society also means that extremists are virtually networked.
"You can be right-wing extremist today without ever having met other right-wing extremists face to face," explained the CDU politician.
The self-radicalization of individuals on the net is a big problem for the security authorities.
"What is happening in terms of networking runs through hatred and agitation," Strobl emphasized.
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