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Berlin (dpa / bb) - Thousands of people in Berlin remembered the victims of the racially motivated attack in Hanau in Hesse a year ago at a demonstration.
By the afternoon, around 4,000 participants had gathered at Hermannstrasse train station in Berlin-Neukölln, said a police spokesman.
More and more people joined it.
Originally 900 participants were registered.
From Neukölln the train set off via Hermannplatz and Kottbusser Tor in the direction of Oranienplatz in Kreuzberg.
The protesters held up signs and photos with the names of the nine killed.
"Hanau was not an isolated case" was written on posters.
According to the police, the situation initially remained calm and relaxed.
The train was therefore accompanied by around 80 emergency services.
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.
He had previously posted pamphlets and videos of conspiracy theories and racist views on the Internet.
The “February 19th Hanau Initiative”
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for “failure by the authorities before, during and after the crime”.
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