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Attacks (since 1970)

Bomb at the S-Bahn station targeting a group of Jewish immigrants from the former USSR leaving a language class

27 juill. 2000·Düsseldorf

Toll
10 blessés

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A group of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union was attending a German language class in Düsseldorf. As they left, they took the staircase of an urban railway station where a homemade explosive device had been placed.

The explosion injured ten people, several of them seriously; a pregnant woman lost the child she was carrying. The victims were precisely those whom Germany had welcomed to rebuild its Jewish communities, decimated half a century earlier.

The investigation stalled for nearly twenty years, despite a far-right lead identified from the outset. The trial of the sole suspect would end in an acquittal, for lack of evidence, making this case one of the most discussed judicial failures in the country.

Period :
Attacks (since 1970)
Type :
Attack
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
Allemagne
Sources

Encyclopaedia Judaica ; chroniques de presse contemporaines.

At the same place2

  1. 9-10 nov. 1938Kristallnacht in Düsseldorfbilan non établi
  2. 27 oct. 1941First convoy departing from Düsseldorfbilan non établi

In the same country303

  1. 1012Expulsion of the community by Henri II; Gershom ben Juda, "light of the exile", loses his son there, forcibly convertedtoute la communauté
  2. 1096Massacres of the First Crusade in the Rhineland~800 à Worms, ~1 000 à Mayence ; total 5 000-12 000
  3. 18 et 25 mai 1096Two massacres~800
  4. Mai-juin 1096The archbishop disperses the community in seven neighboring towns; the crusaders massacre them one by one in Juneplusieurs centaines
  5. 3 mai 1096Sabbath attack by the crusaders of Emicho of Flonheim; Bishop Jean shelters the survivors in his castles and has murderers executed11
  6. 27 mai 1096Assault on the palace of Archbishop Ruthard~1 100
  7. Juin 1096The refugees of Cologne take their own lives in the refectory hall at the moment of the Sabbath mealinconnu
  8. Juin 1096Jews driven into the Danube and forcibly baptized en masse; Henry IV would later permit them to return to Judaismtoute la communauté baptisée

And 295 more in the catalogue.

Event 2371 of 2483, in chronological order · Attacks (since 1970): 174 events in the catalogue

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