Three months after the days of xenophobic pogroms in Rostock-Lichtenhagen, it was the first racist and right-wing extremist motivated assassination attempt in reunified Germany.
Two men, previously known as neo-Nazis, set fire to a house in Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein, where a Turkish family lived 30 years ago.
Two girls and a woman died in the flames, the perpetrators confessed to the cowardly act in an anonymous call with Nazi slogans.
In the 30 years after Mölln, hardly anything has changed in the threat situation for people with migrant roots, dark skin color or the Jewish faith.
Mölln was followed by the arson attack in Solingen with five dead, the series of murders by the NSU that lasted years but remained undetected for a long time, the mass murder in Hanau and the attack on the synagogue in Halle.
Many right-wing extremists are violent
According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, there are now more than 33,000 right-wing extremists, almost half of whom are violent.
Since 2017, a partly right-wing extremist party has been sitting in the Bundestag, which is also represented in 15 state parliaments.
Former CSU Interior Minister Seehofer and his SPD successor Faeser called right-wing extremism the greatest threat to internal security.
77 years after the World War unleashed by Hitler's Germany and the Holocaust, this is a shocking finding.