This week at #UNAHanau@mimueller/@cdu_hessen said our work on the police response to the 19-Feb-20 racist attack was ‘fully without worth’, & called us ‘charlatans’. Maybe he wasn’t paying attention; here’s a few things the UNA knows because of our work:
It was @ForensicArchi + @counterinv who proved that the video camera on the police helicopter which was flying over Hanau that night was set to the wrong time. Maybe @mimueller doesn’t think it’s important that #UNAHanau knows precisely what time the events of the night happened.
We also showed that officers watching the perpetrator’s front door weren’t in position by 23h03 & left again at 23h21. Even though the officers said they were there around 22h30-45. Maybe @mimueller doesn’t think it’s important that the house went unsurveilled for so long.
We also showed that as late as midnight, there was no secure perimeter around the house; civilians could still walk past the perpetrator’s car. Maybe @mimueller doesn’t think it’s important that civilians could get so close to the house of a dangerous and violent extremist.
We revealed that the leaders of the police operation never communicated with the helicopter; in the #UNAHanau a heli pilot confirmed this. Maybe @mimueller thinks it’s a good use of resources for a helicopter to fly around without instructions after a terror attack.
Let’s not forget, the #UNAHanau didn’t even have the heli footage before we exhibited it at @FrankfurterKV in 2022. Some of the UNA committee came to the show, but we didn’t see @mimueller there. Maybe he didn’t think it was important.
At least @mimueller’s boss, Minister President @Boris_Rhein, thought our investigation was worth studying, in #Hanau earlier this year. Federal Interior Minister @NancyFaeser too.
If you think a deeper understanding of how the Hessen police responded to the 19 Feb 2020 racist terror attack is important, you can see more on our findings, and our full investigation (which we weren’t allowed to show in the UNA), here:
...and look out for more dates for Three Doors, our exhibition with the Initiatives @19FebHanau and @OuryJalloh, coming in 2024, where we’ll respond to the final report of the UNA.
(pics: Norbert Miguletz)
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