The state of Hesse and the city of Hanau want to remember the victims of the attack four years ago with a silent remembrance this Monday. According to the city, political speeches will be avoided at the official event in the main cemetery (11 a.m.) “at the express request of the victims’ relatives.” In addition to Hanau’s mayor Claus Kaminsky, Hesse’s deputy prime minister Kaweh Mansoori and Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (all SPD) also want to take part and lay wreaths. Beforehand, an imam should pray and recite from the Koran.
Another memorial event will take place at 2 p.m. at the cemetery in nearby Dietzenbach (Offenbach district). On Monday evening, vigils are planned at the two crime scenes at Heumarkt in Hanau city center and in the Kesselstadt district. On Saturday, several thousand people remembered the victims at a memorial demonstration and called for a fight against racism and right-wing extremism.
In Hanau on February 19, 2020, a 43-year-old German shot nine people for racist motives. He then killed his mother and himself.
