Hanau (dpa/lhe) - In memory of the nine victims of the racist attack, the city of Hanau will be showing an exhibition in the town hall next year. The show by the "Forensic Architecture/Forensis" research group entitled "Hanau February 19, 2020 - Three years of remembrance and enlightenment" will be on display from January 19 to March 19 in the foyer of the Neustadt town hall on Hanau's market square and daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m The initiative announced on February 19 and the city on Wednesday that it would be open at 5 p.m. with free admission. Guided tours with those affected and an accompanying program are planned. School classes can also make an appointment outside of opening hours.
The exhibition is a collaborative project by Forensic Architecture/Forensis, the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the city of Hanau and the 19 February Hanau initiative. It was presented for the first time at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in the summer of 2022. Part of it documents the night of the crime in great detail in a timeline and in video reconstructions and addresses "in particular the mistakes and omissions of the police," the statement said. A second part traces the struggle of relatives, survivors and their supporters for remembrance and enlightenment. It is supported, among others, by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt Rhein-Main and the House of World Cultures in Berlin.
A 43-year-old German shot nine people with racist motives in Hanau on February 19, 2020. He then killed his mother and himself. Victims included Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili-Viorel Păun, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Unvar and Kaloyan Velkov.
