Germany: Muslim community remembers Hanau shooting victims

M/S Members of the Muslim community praying at Ditib Mosque, Hanau
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M/S Members of the Muslim community
C/U Members of the Muslim community praying
M/S Members of the Muslim community praying
W/S Press, members of the Muslim community praying
C/U Members of the Muslim community praying
M/S Imam reciting
M/S Members of the Muslim community
M/S Members of the Muslim community praying
M/S Members of the Muslim community praying
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M/S President of Hanau Ditib Mosque Memduh Oendef talking to press
SOT, Memduh Oendef, President of Hanau Ditib Mosque (German): "Over 104 nationalities live together here in Hanau. I have lived here for 50 years. Something like that has never happened before in Hanau and we have never thought it could happen in Hanau. First of all, we are shocked, and we never want something like this to happen ever again."
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SOT, Memduh Oendef, President of Hanau Ditib Mosque (German): "We also discussed with the police to have a police presence here during Friday prayers, at least for 15 or 20 minutes. Even 15 minutes would be enough for us so people can see that there is some security and they feel better."
M/S Members of the Muslim community outside the mosque
SOT, Adem Arslan, members of the Muslim community (German): "What I expect is more security first of all. You can ban parties but you cannot get rid of the ‘black sheep.’ They will always be around. When you have any kind of suspicion you need to react directly, even if it is exaggerated, in order to prevent things like that."
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W/S Hanau Ditib Mosque
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Members of the Muslim community commemorated nine victims of the shooting perpetrated by a far-right extremist earlier in the week, at the city’s DITIB (Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs) Mosque in Hanau on Friday.
President of Hanau DITIB Mosque Memduh Oendef said the whole community was deeply affected by the shooting and was "shocked." No one could have ever imagined that something like that can happen in Hanau where "over 104 nationalities live together," he added.
Oendef went on to stress that additional security measures have already been agreed with the police forces. "We also discussed with the police to have a police presence here during Friday prayers, at least for 15 or 20 minutes so people can see that there is some security and they feel better," he explained.
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 earlier on Friday.