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Posters at the demo: "Hanau was not an isolated incident"
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Thousands of people in Berlin remembered the victims of the racially motivated attack in Hanau, Hesse, a year ago.
By the afternoon, around 4,000 participants had gathered in the Neukölln district, said a police spokesman.
More and more people joined it.
Originally 900 demonstrators were registered.
The train to Berlin-Kreuzberg started moving from Neukölln.
People held up signs and photos with the names of the nine killed.
"Hanau was not an isolated case" was written on the posters.
According to the police, the situation initially remained calm and relaxed.
The train was therefore accompanied by around 80 emergency services.
On the evening of February 19, 2020, a 43-year-old man shot nine people for racist motives in several locations in the city in the Rhine-Main area, before allegedly killing his mother and then himself.
He had previously published racist pamphlets and videos of conspiracy stories on the Internet.
The "February 19 Hanau Initiative" provides for "failure by the authorities before, during and after the crime."
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