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Berlin (dpa) - Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) declared on the occasion of the anniversary of the racist attack in Hanau that everyone in Germany should be able to live safely.
"The population can rely on it," he said in a quote from the Federal Ministry of the Interior on Twitter on Friday.
"We stand up to those who spread the poison of right-wing extremism, racism and anti-Semitism and who fight our free way of life."
The 43-year-old German Tobias R. shot nine people with foreign roots in several places in the city in the Rhine-Main area on the evening of February 19, 2020, before allegedly killing his mother and ultimately himself.
He had previously posted pamphlets and videos of conspiracy theories and racist views on the Internet.
The act had caused horror throughout Germany.
The "February 19th Hanau Initiative", an association of Hanau family members, speaks of a "failure of the authorities before, during and after the crime".
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