2004 Cologne bombing

2004 Cologne bombing
Part of Terrorism in Germany
Keupstraße
Cologne
Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Cologne
Cologne (Germany)
Location 22 Keupstraße, Cologne, Germany
Date 9 June 2004
Target Turks
Attack type
 Bombing
Weapons nail bomb
Deaths 0
Non-fatal injuries
 22
Suspected perpetrator
 National Socialist Underground
Motive Xenophobia

On 9 June 2004, a nail bomb detonated in Cologne, Germany, in a business area popular with immigrants from Turkey. Twenty-two people were wounded, with four sustaining serious injuries. A barber shop was completely destroyed; many shops and numerous parked cars were seriously damaged by the explosion and the nails added to the bomb for extra damage.[1] Authorities initially excluded the possibility of a terrorist attack.[2] The bomb, which contained more than 800 nails, was hidden in a travel compartment on a bicycle left in front of the barber shop.[3]

In November 2011, the neo-Nazi terrorist group Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund (National Socialist Underground) claimed responsibility in a video which it disseminated after having been found out after a robbery in Eisenach.[4][5]

The group around Uwe Böhnhardt, Uwe Mundlos, and Beate Zschäpe was also indicted with the killing of nine businessmen of Turkish and Greek origin between 2000 and 2006 (National Socialist Underground murders as well as with the murder of Michèle Kiesewetter in 2007. Zschäpe, the only surviving of the three, has been accused, among other charges, for the attempted murder of 23 people in this bombing in the 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.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger article
  2. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiter: Stochern im Nebel, 30 July 2004
  3. ↑ Truscheit, Karin (15 March 2015). "NSU-Opfer: Damit das alles einen Sinn ergibt". Frankfurter Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  4. ↑ Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg. "Braune Zelle Zwickau: Neonazi-Terroristen hinterließen Geständnis auf DVD - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Panorama". Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "SPIEGEL.TV - Web-TV der SPIEGEL Gruppe". Retrieved 23 December 2016.
  6. ↑ Rodek, Hanns-Georg (26 May 2017). "Fatih Akin in Cannes: Was Aus dem Nichts über uns verrät". Die Welt. Retrieved 15 August 2018.

Coordinates: 50°57′57″N 7°00′31″E / 50.96583°N 7.00861°E / 50.96583; 7.00861

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