Five years ago, an 18-year-old shot nine people, most of them from a migrant background. They were now being remembered in Munich.
Munich – When commemorating the victims of the racist attack in Munich five years ago, Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) called for the fight against hate crime and agitation.
Right-wing extremism is growing like a tumor in society, he said in front of the Olympic shopping center (OEZ), where an 18-year-old man shot and killed eight young people and a woman out of hatred on July 22, 2016, before killing himself. “That was a clearly politically motivated act of violence,” Söder continued. At first there was talk of a revenge rampage. Only in 2018 did the authorities classify the act as racist.
“You are not alone”
Munich’s Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD) had previously made a similar statement. This attack is part of the bloody trail of right-wing terror that has been running through Germany for decades. Nothing in the world will bring back loved ones who died because a murderer had put his inhuman, hateful plans into practice. Reiter assured the relatives of solidarity. “We are here. You are not alone.”
Gisela Kollmann, whose grandson Giuliano died at the age of 19 at the age of 19, made it clear how deep the pain is in the families of the Munich victims. “A piece has been torn out of my heart.”
In her speech, she recalled victims of other attacks such as in Hanau and Halle. “We have to stand together, support one another and talk to one another in order to always keep our loved ones in our hearts,” she said. The fact that the act in Munich is now considered racist is a consolation and has given the murdered back their dignity. dpa
