Pipe Bomb Attack on Mehmet O.
Wife of André E.
On 23 June 1999, a pipe bomb disguised as a flashlight detonated in the Pilsner bar “Sonnenschein” on Scheurlstraße in Nuremberg. The bar’s owner, then 18 years old, discovered the flashlight in the men’s restroom the day after the opening party and picked it up. The object exploded in his hands. O. suffered serious injuries and had to be cared for by his mother at home for several weeks. Five years after the attack, Mehmet O. left his hometown after rumors that he had been involved in the act refused to die down. Already in his youth, he and his friends had been pursued by neo-Nazis in the Franconian metropolis; one friend had been beaten up in the process. For 14 years, Nuremberg-born Mehmet O. (name changed) did not know who had planted the bomb. That the NSU was behind the attack only became known through the testimony of Carsten S. in 2013 at the NSU trial in Munich. Mehmet O. was subsequently shown more than one hundred photographs during a police interview. In one of the photos, he recognized a woman. He later learned from journalists that she was the wife of the neo-Nazi André E.
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Scheurlstraße, Nürnberg
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