The celebration was jointly designed by representatives of the Catholic and Evangelical Church and the Islamic faith community. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) and Governor Mario Kunsasek (FPÖ) also spoke. The speeches were supported by the will of cohesion and cooperation.
On Tuesday, the ten killed and eleven injured people was thought to whom a 21-year-old ex-student in the Borg Dreierschützengasse shot in the morning of June 10 before exercising suicide. Seven days after the terrible bloody deed in the Graz school, there is still great sympathy in the city. In the evening, hundreds gathered in the cathedral to pause and set a sign of connection with the victims of their families and friends.
Representatives of churches and politics
Mehmet Celebi, chairman of the Islamic religious community of Styria, opened the liturgical part of the interreligious commemoration, in which the death victim – including three Muslim pupils – was thought of: “We are here – but also united in memory of people who were full of hope and were torn out far too early”, as Celebi said.
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Connected in the middle of all diversity
He appealed to the responsibility of each individual for society: “We are responsible, each individual. And Celebi referred to the common in the diversity of the city: “We are connected in the middle of all diversity. We like different beliefs, but the pain of a father is the same, the tears of a mother are the same. This humanity unites us.” Celibi concluded with the words: “The answer to violence can only be the determination of a cooperation.”
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Source: Nachrichten
