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In the investigative committee of the Hessian state parliament on the Hanau attack, the statements of the survivors are hardly questioned. The SPD and the Left are shamelessly exploiting the exceptional emotional situation. An honest review including a serious discussion is still pending.
It was the pain and desperate anger of a mother who lost her child at the hands of a mad racist. When the committee of inquiry in the Hessian state parliament began its work on the Hanau attack almost a year ago, a witness described the then Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) as a “heartless, callous old man”. The woman claimed that he had told her that he had experienced worse in his job as a lawyer.
Ewald Hetrodt
Correspondent for the Rhein-Main-Zeitung in Wiesbaden.
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Hardly anyone believed her, but none of the deputies disagreed. In any case, the committee should serve in the first meetings to give the victims’ relatives the opportunity to talk their grief and despair off their souls in public. And they should feel that the country where the monstrous act took place mourns with them.