The Hanau shooting showed that "the threat posed by right-wing extremism, antisemitism, and racism in Germany is very high," German interior minister Horst Seehofer said on Friday (21 February).
He called it "a clearly racially-motivated terror attack" that left "a trail of blood ... in our country".
It was the third far-right killing in Germany since last June, he noted.
And the threats kept multiplying, he said.
"Just last week, we arrested 12 suspected right-wing ...
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