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I.113  The Index of Repression

Date of Incident

2019 - Ongoing

Location

Germany

Forums

Legal Process, Web Platform

Commissioned By

European Legal Support Center (ELSC)
For decades, across Europe and the US, acts of solidarity with Palestine have been silenced by states, and by institutions. Since the genocide in Gaza escalated, from October 2023 onwards, incidents of repression have increased across civil society. The Index presents data collected by the ELSC, drawing patterns between hundreds of such incidents. The project’s first phase focuses on Germany.

I.81  Racist Terror Attack in Hanau: The Police Operation

Racist Terror Attack in Hanau: The Police Operation

Date of Incident

19 Feb 2020

Location

Hanau, Germany

Forums

Exhibition, Media, Parliamentary Inquiry

Commissioned By

Initiative 19. Februar
On 19 February 2020, nine people were murdered in a racist terror attack in Hanau, Germany. After the attack, the perpetrator went to his house, where he killed his mother, and himself. Police knew the perpetrator’s address early on but did not storm the house for almost five hours. We were asked by the victims’ families and the Initiative 19. Februar to examine how the police operation unfolded.

I.77  Racist Terror Attack in Hanau: The Arena Bar

Date of Incident

19 Feb 2020

Location

Hanau, Germany

Forums

Media, Parliamentary Inquiry

Commissioned By

Initiative 19. Februar, Lawyers for the Gültekin family
On 19 February 2020, in Hanau, Germany, a racist terror attack left nine people dead, six of them in or near the local Arena bar. There are reports that the bar’s emergency exit was routinely locked, and the victims of the attack didn’t run towards it for that reason. We examined whether, had they tried to do so, and it had been open, they could have survived the attack.

I.24  The Murder of Halit Yozgat

The Murder of Halit Yozgat

Date of Incident

6 Apr 2006

Location

Kassel, Germany

Forums

Citizens' Tribunal, Exhibition, Media, Parliamentary Inquiry

Commissioned By

The People's Tribunal 'Unraveling the NSU Complex'
Halit Yozgat was murdered by neo-Nazis at the desk of his internet café in Kassel, Germany, while a state intelligence agent was sitting just metres away. The agent claimed he didn’t hear the gunshots, didn’t smell the gunpowder, and didn’t see the body. Using digital models and 1:1 physical reconstructions, we tested those claims.