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Hanau (dpa) - The memorial events a year after the racially motivated attack in Hanau went quietly and peacefully, according to the police.
The police did not have to intervene, said a spokesman on Saturday.
Late on Friday evening, dozens of people at the crime scenes in Hanau at the time remembered the nine victims.
They gathered in silent memory at the exact times when the assassin fired the shots in the city center on February 19, 2020 and shortly afterwards in the Kesselstadt district.
Hanau's Lord Mayor Claus Kaminsky (SPD) also came to the crime scene in downtown Hanau and lit a candle on a plaque with pictures of the dead.
He also spoke to members of the “February 19th Hanau Initiative”, in which several relatives had come together.
Previously, the dead had been commemorated in an event in Hanau with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Hesse's Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU).
Hanau's honorary citizen Rudi Völler opened the memorial event with a quote from Wilhelm Grimm.
The act caused great horror not only in Germany.
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 then himself and videos of conspiracy theories and racist views posted on the Internet.
The “February 19th Hanau Initiative” speaks of a “failure of the authorities before, during and after the crime”.
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