2004 Cologne bombing

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2004 Cologne bombing
2004 bombenanschlag auf Köln
Part of
Anti-Turkism[1]

On 9 June 2004, a

terrorist attack.[3] The bomb, which contained more than 800 nails, was hidden in a travel compartment on a bicycle left in front of the barber shop.[4]

In November 2011, after having been accused by authorities of being responsible for a robbery in

neo-Nazi terrorist group National Socialist Underground (Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund) released a video claiming responsibility for the Cologne bombing.[5][6]

The group’s main members,

NSU trial
.

The events of the 2017 film In the Fade, starring Diane Kruger as a German woman whose Kurdish husband and their child were killed in a nail bomb attack by Neo-Nazis, was inspired by the 2004 bombing.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Neo-Nazi pamphlets target Cologne area hit by racist nail bomb | DW | 07.06.2019". DW.COM. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
  2. ^ Kölner Stadtanzeiger article
  3. ^ Kölner Stadtanzeiter: Stochern im Nebel, 30 July 2004
  4. ^ Truscheit, Karin (15 March 2015). "NSU-Opfer: Damit das alles einen Sinn ergibt". Frankfurter Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  5. ^ Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg. "Braune Zelle Zwickau: Neonazi-Terroristen hinterließen Geständnis auf DVD - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Panorama". Retrieved 23 December 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "SPIEGEL.TV - Web-TV der SPIEGEL Gruppe". Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  7. ^ Rodek, Hanns-Georg (26 May 2017). "Fatih Akin in Cannes: Was Aus dem Nichts über uns verrät". Die Welt. Retrieved 15 August 2018.

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