Gokhan Gultekin’s juggling act was in many ways typical of Hanau’s
Turkish community: taking care of frail parents, hustling to work at a late-night cafe, making some cash on the side at a second job and attending Friday prayers at the mosque across town.
On Friday, Gultekin’s friends mourned him at his house of worship, two days after “Gogo” was killed in a racially motivated
shooting rampage that shook
Germany and prompted fresh calls for a crackdown on far-right extremism and anti-immigrant scapegoating.
On Wednesday, a 43-year-old German, Tobias Rathjen, shot to death nine people with
immigrant backgrounds in this Frankfurt suburb before apparently killing his mother and himself.