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28th June, 2020 Do you know what racists do? They take an imaginary eraser, put it on you and erase you. At least they try by questioning your right to exist. They don't just insult you, they erase you. They tell you: you mustn't be.
27th June, 2020 Wounds that racists inflict on someone don't heal. You change. Everything. But they don't heal.
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On the evening of 19 February 2020 43-year-old Tobias R. opened fire in the center of Hanau, a city in the middle of Germany. He shot several people in the shisha bar Midnight. Shortly afterward he escaped in a car. He shot several more people at Kurt-Schumacher-Square two kilometers away. Here the scene was the Arena Bar Café. All nine people killed were between 21 and 44 years old and were from Turkish, Bulgarian, Bosnian and Romanian backgrounds. In the assassin's apartment the police discovered two more corpses - the assassin himself and his 72-year-old mother. The father, who was present, was unharmed.
Who was Tobias R.? According to Die ZEIT's investigation (Fuchs et al., 2020), Tobias R. graduated High school in Hanau in 1996. A classmate said that she knew of him as a clever but reserved young man. In a Curriculum Vitae he published on the internet he wrote that, after A-levels, he passed a civil service exam and then took a banking apprenticeship. He studied business economics and graduated in 2007. On his homepage he published a right-wing manifesto in which persecution and conspiracy ideas predominated. How can his radical right-wing manifesto and the subsequent murderous outburst be understood from a psychoanalytic perspective? What is the connection between his manifesto and the terrorist actions? I first lay out some thoughts about traumatic experiences, various defense formations, and the failure of the defenses. Against this background, I examine the text of the manifesto and the reports on the homicidal acts 19 February. The article examines how the collapse