Enver Şimşek
The Enver Şimşek memorial stands in Nuremberg, marking the first murder committed by the National Socialist Underground, or NSU. You would encounter a place of remembrance connected to a flower stall and a life cut short by racist violence.
Şimşek was a Turkish businessman who ran several flower stalls in southern Germany. On 9 September 2000, two gunmen shot him while he covered for an employee on holiday, and he died from his injuries two days later. The NSU later killed ten people between 2000 and 2007, while investigations initially treated the crimes as organised crime within immigrant communities rather than recognising their racist motives.
The memorial keeps his death connected to the wider history of right-wing extremism in Germany. Its most concrete detail is the flower trade that brought Şimşek to Nuremberg on the day he was attacked.
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