Under the motto “Find the culprit!” Numerous people from Kassel demonstrated with a car on Wednesday afternoon- and a bicycle parade for the complete investigation of the probably racially motivated attempted murder of a mini car driver from Kassel.
Led by the affected person's taxi-driving colleagues, the group started at around 8:00 p.m 16 p.m. a crowd of around 80 Cars and around 150 Cyclists at Halitplatz and circled the city center honking loudly. Am 21. June 2020 an unknown man had the minicar driver Bekir E. seriously injured with a stab in the neck in Kassel's Nordstadt. The victim's statements suggest a racist motive for the crime. That's how he got it with the words “Fucking foreigners, money launderer" insulted, before he stabbed and from the corner of Fraunhoferstrasse / Knutzenstrasse fled towards Fiedlerstrasse. Bekir E. survived the attack after emergency treatment in the nearby hospital.
In the case of the most recent knife attack, the local newspaper HNA initially simply wrote of an “unprovoked attack”..
However, the demonstrators made it clear, that they do not see the perpetrator alone as responsible. Because Kassel has a problem with racism in general and right-wing terror in particular, said the organizers of the initiative 6. April und Minicar-Citycar. In the call for demonstrations, they called for the attack on Bekir E. in a row with a knife attack from the year 2016. The Lübcke murderer Stephan Ernst is under urgent suspicion Ahmed I. to have suffered life-threatening injuries at the time. The police and media are criticized for this in the call, not to have taken the racist motives of the crimes seriously. In the case of the most recent knife attack, the local newspaper HNA initially simply wrote of an “unprovoked attack”..
“A city is only beautiful then, when there are no more racists in it.”
The chairman of the Foreigners' Advisory Council of the city of Kassel also highlighted the structural dimension of the allegedly racist murder attempt at the final rally at Halitplatz, Kamil Saygin, attentive. In times of increasing right-wing violence, he is sad, that no representatives of the city of Kassel appeared at the demonstration. In his short speech he also recalled a demonstration, at which already in the year 2006 – immediately after 9. Murder of Halit Yozgat in Kassel by the so-called NSU - the racist dimension of the series of murders was pointed out.
While Saygin still emphasized, that he likes Kassel and its people, war es Ayşe Güleç von der Initiative 6. April, which clarified, which many of the applauding demonstrators that afternoon seemed to share: “A city is only beautiful then, when there are no more racists in it.” It is time for this, as Saygin had previously put it, that the “Germans” also integrate.
