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Leipzig / Hanau (dpa) - Hundreds of people in Leipzig thought of the victims of the racist attack in Hanau a year ago.

The three events took place without any special incidents, the police said on Friday evening.

At the largest, with the motto "One year after Hanau - commemorate together, fight together!"

up to 800 people would have attended.

Several hundred people also came to the other two meetings, it said.

Sometimes there were restrictions in local public transport.

On the evening of February 19, 2020, the 43-year-old German Tobias R. shot nine people with foreign roots in several places in the Hessian city near Frankfurt, before allegedly killing his mother and then himself. Before that, he had pamphlets and videos with conspiracy theories and racist views posted on the internet.

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