Racist attack
Witness in the Hanau Committee: “Justice and Truth”
Relatives of the victims of the racist attack in Hanau 2020 hold photos of the victims at a vigil in front of the Hessian state parliament. Photo: Arne Dedert / dpa
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The investigative committee of the Hessian state parliament into the racist attack in Hanau heard today the relatives of two victims of the crime as witnesses. You are asking for justice.
At the start of the public meetings of the committee of inquiry into the racist attack in Hanau, the cousin of one of the victims, as a witness, demanded the clarification of the crime and the consequences.
“I want justice and the truth,” said Vaska Zladeva on Friday in Wiesbaden. Her cousin Kaloyan Velkov is one of the nine people in the attack on February 19, 2020 in Hanau. The investigative committee of the Hessian state parliament mainly deals with the question of whether there was an authority failure before, during and after the crime.
At the beginning of her hearing, Zladeva described her impressions from the night of the crime and the days that followed. The police only discovered her cousin about 25 to 30 minutes after arriving at the crime scene in the “La Votre” bar in the city center, said the 36-year-old Bulgarian, whose statements are being translated by an interpreter. The relatives were left to wait for hours in front of the bar and later in a hall without giving them any information or looking after them personally. The names of the victims of the attack were only read to the family members from a list around 6:30 a.m.
She and his mother were only allowed to see her cousin, who was like a brother to her, five to six days later and after a DNA comparison. The autopsy was carried out without her consent. «We want the people responsible to finally take responsibility. Anyone who made mistakes must be punished, »said Zladeva.
A 43-year-old German murdered nine people for racist motives in Hanau on February 19, 2020, presumably afterwards he shot his mother and himself The assassin who was a marksman, as well as the unavailability of the Hanau police emergency number 110 on the night of the crime.