‼️We present: Forensis Hanau Investigation‼️

Join us and learn about the investigation about the Hanau racist terrorist attack in Hanau in 2020 from our comrades at Forensis /Forensic Architecture on 22 Jan at the Rote Lilly (Emser Str. 114). We begin at 19h and our door opens at 18:30.
It has almost been 5 years since the racist terrorist attack on 19 February, 2020 in Hanau, where Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili-Viorel Păun, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Unvar und Kaloyan Velkov were murdered.
We will continue to organize a demonstration on the 19th of February. Before marching together to commemorate the attack and strengthen our anti-racist movement, we woud like to come together to educate ourselves and critically reflect over the events that have unfolded in the last 5 years since the Hanau attack.
Dimitra Andritsou from Forensis/Forensic Architecture (FA), one of the researchers in charge of the counter-investigations of the attack conducted by Forensis/FA in cooperation with the families of the victims and the Initiative of the 19th February Hanau, will join us sharing the findings of their investigations which exposed major failures of state agencies, especially the police, before, during and after the attack.
Forensis is a Berlin based association founded by Forensic Architecture. Forensis investigates state and corporate violence through an interdisciplinary approach which includes architects, software developers, filmmakers, investigative journalists, scientists, and lawyers.
After Dimitra’s presentation we will have an open discussion focusing on questions such as: – How did the state address these attacks and racism in general and what are the shortcomings of the German state’s liberal anti-racism?

Why is it important to keep organizing and build resistance on the 19th of February?

What do we learn about the nature of institutional and systemic racism from Hanau?

To what extend are racist terrorist attacks structurally related to other forms of violence and oppression such as imperialist wars and capitalist exploitation?