03:16Local residents on Friday expressed their thoughts and reflections on the shooting perpetrated by a far-right extremist that killed nine people in Hanau earlier in the week.
"We are very close to each other here I think and deeply shocked. I cannot find the words. Everywhere I go, at the dentist, at the hairdresser - people know each other. And we are all deeply shocked really," said Monica Chiesa.
Another resident, Teyfik Oezcan, stressed that the only way forward was together and blamed right-wing parties for helping to establish a discourse of xenophobia in Germany. "We can only do this together. The hotbed that has been created in recent years, predominantly by right-wing populistic parties, that are part of the regional parliaments now. They are currently the mental arsonists, you could even say the mental murderers who are also responsible for the events."
Another resident, Carmen Weiz, also shared Teyfik Oezcan's concerns over the dangers such parties pose. "I am part of a minority myself - I am Sinthi. And we are affected too as a Sinthi woman is among the victims as well. Politics lets us down in a way. Everyone can say something to us and everyone patronises us and I think that AfD [Alternative for Germany] should have been prevented from assuming any power, people who think like that."
A gunman opened fire outside one shisha bar in the city's Heumarkt district and drove off to a second location in the Kesselstadt district where he opened fire again, killing nine people in total and injuring several others late on Wednesday evening.
The suspect was a 43-year-old German citizen from Hanau. Together with his 72-year-old mother, he was found dead at his home in the early hours of Thursday morning.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer described the Hanau shooting as a "racially motivated terror attack" during a press conference in Berlin on Friday.
Germany: 'Deeply shocked' - Locals reflect on deadly Hanau shootings
Local residents on Friday expressed their thoughts and reflections on the shooting perpetrated by a far-right extremist that killed nine people in Hanau earlier in the week.
"We are very close to each other here I think and deeply shocked. I cannot find the words. Everywhere I go, at the dentist, at the hairdresser - people know each other. And we are all deeply shocked really," said Monica Chiesa.
Another resident, Teyfik Oezcan, stressed that the only way forward was together and blamed right-wing parties for helping to establish a discourse of xenophobia in Germany. "We can only do this together. The hotbed that has been created in recent years, predominantly by right-wing populistic parties, that are part of the regional parliaments now. They are currently the mental arsonists, you could even say the mental murderers who are also responsible for the events."
Another resident, Carmen Weiz, also shared Teyfik Oezcan's concerns over the dangers such parties pose. "I am part of a minority myself - I am Sinthi. And we are affected too as a Sinthi woman is among the victims as well. Politics lets us down in a way. Everyone can say something to us and everyone patronises us and I think that AfD [Alternative for Germany] should have been prevented from assuming any power, people who think like that."
A gunman opened fire outside one shisha bar in the city's Heumarkt district and drove off to a second location in the Kesselstadt district where he opened fire again, killing nine people in total and injuring several others late on Wednesday evening.
The suspect was a 43-year-old German citizen from Hanau. Together with his 72-year-old mother, he was found dead at his home in the early hours of Thursday morning.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer described the Hanau shooting as a "racially motivated terror attack" during a press conference in Berlin on Friday.
Local residents on Friday expressed their thoughts and reflections on the shooting perpetrated by a far-right extremist that killed nine people in Hanau earlier in the week.
"We are very close to each other here I think and deeply shocked. I cannot find the words. Everywhere I go, at the dentist, at the hairdresser - people know each other. And we are all deeply shocked really," said Monica Chiesa.
Another resident, Teyfik Oezcan, stressed that the only way forward was together and blamed right-wing parties for helping to establish a discourse of xenophobia in Germany. "We can only do this together. The hotbed that has been created in recent years, predominantly by right-wing populistic parties, that are part of the regional parliaments now. They are currently the mental arsonists, you could even say the mental murderers who are also responsible for the events."
Another resident, Carmen Weiz, also shared Teyfik Oezcan's concerns over the dangers such parties pose. "I am part of a minority myself - I am Sinthi. And we are affected too as a Sinthi woman is among the victims as well. Politics lets us down in a way. Everyone can say something to us and everyone patronises us and I think that AfD [Alternative for Germany] should have been prevented from assuming any power, people who think like that."
A gunman opened fire outside one shisha bar in the city's Heumarkt district and drove off to a second location in the Kesselstadt district where he opened fire again, killing nine people in total and injuring several others late on Wednesday evening.
The suspect was a 43-year-old German citizen from Hanau. Together with his 72-year-old mother, he was found dead at his home in the early hours of Thursday morning.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer described the Hanau shooting as a "racially motivated terror attack" during a press conference in Berlin on Friday.