So far, around 5.58 million euros have been paid out in hardship payments for victims and survivors of terrorist attacks in Germany. As the report by the Federal Government's Victims' Commissioner, Edgar Franke, presented in Berlin on Tuesday, 3.7 million euros alone benefited the victims of the attack on the Berlin Christmas market in 2016. Around 1.3 million euros went to the victims of the synagogue attack in Halle. In his final report, Franke drew a positive balance of the increase in aid for victims of attacks. The Federal Government Commissioner for the Concerns of Victims and Survivors of Terrorist Offenses in Germany also called for further improvements.

In the last electoral term, Franke mainly supported the victims of the Islamist terrorist attack on Berlin's Breitscheidplatz in December 2016, the right-wing extremist attack on the synagogue in Halle in October 2019, the racially motivated attack in Hanau in February 2020 and the knife attack on a homosexual couple in Dresden in October last year, in which a man died. Those affected can turn to the ombudsman at the federal government even years after the offense. He is still in contact with victims of the attack on Breitscheidplatz, the report said.

In the report, Franke called for more reliable support for victim support organizations in the future and spoke out in favor of additional victim funds in the federal states.

Hardship performance was not always enough to meet demand, the report said.

According to the information, Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Lower Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate and Schleswig-Holstein have already set up their own victim funds.

A fund is being planned in Hessen.

Franke also complained in the report that in two federal states, in Brandenburg and Saarland, there is still no victim ombudsman at the state level.