"Nuremberg, September 9, 2000: The Turkish-born florist Enver Simsek was waiting for customers at his roadside stall when his murderers ambushed him in the early afternoon. They shot the 38-year-old father eight times, with five bullets htiting him in the head. He died two days later from his severe injuries. Simsek did not regain consciousness before dying and was thus not able to give information about what had happened or who had attacked him."
"It was not until 11 years later that Simsek's wife and her two children found out who was responsible for killing their husband and father: a terror group, which named itself National Socialist Underground (NSU) and was until then unknown to the public. Its motives: hate and racism. The NSU was uncovered on November 4, 2011. On this day, after a failed bank robbery in Eisenach, Thuringia, two men very likely took their own lives in a campervan,"
On September 9, 2000 a Turkish-born florist, Enver Simsek, was ambushed at his roadside stall, shot eight times and died two days later without regaining consciousness. Eleven years later his family learned that a terror group calling itself the National Socialist Underground (NSU) was responsible. The NSU’s motives were hate and racism. On November 4, 2011 Uwe Bohnhardt and Uwe Mundlos likely died by suicide after a failed bank robbery; their accomplice Beate Zschape later revealed the trio. Between 2000 and 2007 the trio murdered nine immigrants and one police officer while security agencies failed to notice. Simsek’s daughter Semiya, born in Germany, now lives in Turkey.
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