Murder of Abdurrahim Özüdoğru

Abdurrahim Özüdoğru had moved to Germany in 1972 to study mechanical engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. On 13 June 2001, the 49-year-old began his shift as a machine operator at the Diehl company at 5:45 a.m. After work, he drove home with a colleague. He then went to his tailor shop at the corner of Siemensstraße and Gyulaer Straße in the Südstadt district of Nuremberg. There he was murdered with two shots to the head. Abdurrahim Özüdoğru was killed with the same weapon as Enver Şimşek. For years, investigators pursued exclusively and unsuccessfully the theory of “organized crime,” which placed a heavy burden on the family. The murder victim’s daughter was still a teenager at the time of the murder. Stickers from the neo-Nazi “Fränkische Aktionsfront,” banned in 2004, which for years remained stuck to the downpipes at the crime scene, were ignored.

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Quelle: Mair, Birgit: Die Opfer des NSU und die Aufarbeitung der Verbrechen (5. aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage 2021) Nürnberg, S. 15.