25 years after Solingen: Has Germany changed?
02 December 2018 |
11:14 am
In 1993, right-wing arsonists set fire to the home of the Genc family in the western German town of Solingen. Two women and three girls died in the blaze. Recently, commemorations were held for the victims, who were of Turkish ethnicity.
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