Memorial event in Munich: NSU victim Boulgarides is remembered
Memorial event in Munich: NSU victim Boulgarides is remembered
München, Deutschland - Next Sunday The 18th anniversary of the murder of Theodoros Boulgarides will be celebrated in Munich, a victim of the right -wing extremist terrorist group National Socialist underground (NSU). The Greek small entrepreneur, who was shot in his newly opened locksmith on Stachus on June 15, 2005, was executed with three head shots and was the seventh death in a series of murder that cost numerous people from racist motifs in Germany from 2000 to 2006. Mayor Dominik Krause emphasizes the importance of consistently fighting the growing right -wing extremism, and will lead the memorial event on Sunday, June 14, 2025, at 12 p.m.
Boulgarides came to Munich in 1973, where he completed an apprenticeship and worked for renowned companies such as Siemens and Deutsche Bahn. He opened his locksmith only two weeks before his violent death. This throws a shadow on the investigation, which initially did not focus on the NSU, but on the victim's private environment. The other NSU victim Habil Kiliç, who was shot in a delicatessen in Munich on August 29, 2001, were similar. He also had the first hypothesis of the police criminal connections before the racist motifs were focused on. href = "https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/muenchen/pure-spekulation-das-zolizei-zoli-im-nsu-fall-mitten-in-muenchen-ar-1062492"> evening newspaper , it is a scandalous fact that many of the NSU-Murd organizes crime groups for years were misinterpreted.
The NSU murder series in focus
There were ten victims between 2000 and 2007, which were murdered by the NSU from racist motifs. This included ethnic Turks, the Greek Boulgarides and the German policewoman Michèle Kiesewetter. The NSU's murder opera, which is often also referred to as a "kebab murders", especially benefited small businessmakers who lived in a more economically tense situation. The main perpetrators, Uwe Mundlos, Uwe Böhnhardt and Beate Zschäpe, lived underground from 1998 and maintained a network of violence and terror over this period. The case became visible on November 4, 2011 when the perpetrators were found dead after a failed bank robbery in the motorhome. Zschäpe then faced the police after she set the hiding place in Zwickau.The NSU was not only a series of murder, but also a serious failure of the security authorities, which determined for decades in the wrong direction, while indications of racist terror were left behind. The alleged connections between German secret services and the NSU also raise questions that have not yet been fully clarified.
challenges and critical questions
Reporting on the murders met with outrage because of the inadequate investigation, but also to an escalating xenophobic discussion in public. For example, the families of the victims submitted a report to the United Nations, which accuses of systematic racism among the Bavarian police. In the meantime, allegations of the cooperation between neo-Nazi information with the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution have also been loud, which meant that some police officers were suspended.
The NSU process started in May 2013 and ended in July 2018 with a conviction Zschäpes for lifelong imprisonment. But many questions remain open: How could such a dangerous group remain undetected for so long? Which networks supported the NSU? And how can increasing right -wing extremism be fought sustainably? These and other aspects are also critically discussed in the dossier of Bavarian State Center for Political Education. We can only hope that memorial events such as those in Munich are not only a memory, but also an impetus for an intensive conversation about our responsibility in the fight against racism and terrorism.
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