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A victim of the Hanau shooting recounted the gun attack from his hospital bed. "It was a bloodbath, like in a game or a movie," said Muhammed Beyakindir, who was one of six injured in the attack. 

Nine people in the western German town of Hanau were shot dead late on 19 February, some of them from the Turkish-Kurdish community.

The gunman, identified as Tobias Rathjen, later killed his 73-year-old mother before turning the gun on himself. Rathjen detailed his far-right views in a 24-page manifesto. 

Following the attack, German Kurds called for stronger government action against far-right radicalism and racism.

"Politicians must ask themselves, 'how did we get here?'" Metin Kan, who said he was a close friend of one of the people killed, told Reuters.

Chancellor Angela Merkel talked of the "poison" of racism as she condemned the killings, while German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said, during a vigil in Hanau, that the attack leaves "us speechless.”

But Ayten Kaplan, a German-Kurd occupational therapist from the western city of Essen said words and gestures were not enough.

"We need a national campaign that celebrates Germany's multi-ethnic population and condemns those trying to sow division," she told Reuters.

"Some of the people at the shisha bars came to Germany because of persecution at home. The last thing they need is to be made to feel unsafe."