This Thursday, Weiberfastnacht, was the start of Carnival, which is usually a week of fun-filled celebrations leading up to Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent.
Not this year.
Wednesday night before, yet another right-wing terrorist went on a killing spree, taking nine lives in the small town of Hanau; from his social media accounts, we know that his motivation was blind hatred and xenophobia, fueled by current AfD rhetoric.
The names of his murder victims are:
Ferhat Ünver
Gökhan Gültekin
Hamza Kurtović
Said Nesar El Hashemi
Mercedes Kierpacz
Sedat Gürbüz
Kaloyan Velkov
Fatih Saraçoğlu
Vili Viorel Păun
(Köln gegen Rechts, 2/21/20)
