Overview
- Initiative Hafenstraße '96 has launched the #zeitzureden witness appeal to prompt renewed investigations, with no relevant tips reported about a month after the call began.
- Lübeck Mayor Jan Lindenau is receiving survivors and families at city hall, with a demonstration on Saturday and a commemoration at the former site on Sunday supported by the city.
- Researcher Fabian Virchow cites strong indications of a right‑wing motive but assesses the likelihood of a new indictment as very low.
- Four neo-Nazis from Grevesmühlen were detained and released shortly after the 1996 attack, with reported subsequent admissions never leading to charges, while resident Safwan E. was twice tried and acquitted.
- Survivors and activists demand a parliamentary inquiry in Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and broader institutional recognition of the attack in official histories of right‑wing violence.