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'Hatred Is Poison:' Angela Merkel Condemns Hanau Shootings
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February 20, 2020
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1:08Now PlayingGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has condemned the deadly shootings in Hanau and pledged to fight against those who try to divide the country along ethnic lines. #HanauShootings #GermanyShootings
Speaking Thursday in Berlin, Merkel said "everything will be done to investigate the circumstances of these terrible murders" but that much indicated they were motivated by far-right and racist motives.
The attack was quickly and broadly condemned by many organizations, including the Central Council of Muslims, the Confederation of Kurdish Associations in Germany, and the Central Council of Jews.
In unusually plain words, Merkel said: "Racism is a poison. Hatred is a poison."
"This poison exists in our society and its is responsible for far too many crimes," she added, citing the killings committed by a far-right gang known as the NSU, the fatal shooting last year of a regional politician from her party, and the attack on a synagogue in Halle in October.
She added that authorities would do everything possible to stand up to those who try to divide the country with racism.
A 43-year-old German man shot and killed nine people at several locations in a Frankfurt suburb overnight in attacks that appear to have been motivated by far-right beliefs, according to officials.
He was later found dead near the body of his 72-year-old mother, according to the interior ministry of the German state of Hesse.
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