Filip Goman:
Serpil, nobody understands what we're doing here.
Serpil Unvar:
Yes.
Even our people at home don't understand us.
Filip Goman:
Why are we here every day?
Filip Goman points to the white wall opposite, to the picture of his daughter Mercedes, to Serpil Unvar's son Ferhat, to the seven other young people he did not know before February 19, 2020.
In this room they hang next to each other in photos, shrink-wrapped in plastic, framed by a gray curtain:
The room, that is 140 square meters of retail space on Krämerstrasse in Hanau, formerly an erotic shop, today #saytheirnames is emblazoned in blue neon letters at the entrance above the shop window.
Every day people meet in this room who did not know each other before, although most of them have lived in the same neighborhood for decades.
They were brought together by the man whom they call "Tobias", "the dog" or "the bastard".
The racist who was her neighbor and who shot her children on the night of February 19, 2020, at six different crime scenes, within a few minutes.
Who then returned to his parents' house, first shooting his mother, then himself.
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