'Racism is poison' says Angela Merkel after Hanau shooting

Tausende hörten zu, als Frank-Walter Steinmeier seine Rede für die Opfer hielt

Tausende hörten zu, als Frank-Walter Steinmeier seine Rede für die Opfer hielt. Source: Martin Meissner / AP

A 43-year-old German who posted a manifesto calling for the “complete extermination” of many “races or cultures in our midst” shot and killed nine people of foreign background in an attack on a hookah bar and other sites in the Frankfurt suburb of Hanau. Most of his victims were from a Turkish background.



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