Great sympathy for a moving funeral service for a 15-year-old student who had to live her life at the murderous Spree in Graz. Now she starts her last trip to her old house. Representatives of the styric Muslims, however, took a wreath for the school.
Hundreds of people flowed to the club of Bosniaken Styria in Graz-Puntigam on Friday afternoon to attend the funeral service for 15-year-old Hanna, one of the deadly victims of the Graz Killing Run. The small garden next to the simple mosque cannot take all the mourning guests, many people are on the sidewalk in front.
“Always with a smile on your face”
Hanna’s family was a member of this association of the Bosnian community in Styria. “The little one was in our dance club”, the deeply affected club chairman Elvedin Omerčević had already told the “Kroon” this week. Energy, full of life and always with a smile on her face – so she described her uncle the day after the crazy act. “Dear sister in the world”, her brother called the 15-year-old in his emotional speech during a memorial event on the main square of Graz.
“We got together here today to help the family in this difficult time and to give their strength,” says one of the funeral speakers. “We say goodbye to a young person who left us through this meaningless act of violence.”
Grave next to “Favorite Grandpa”
There is a simple wooden coffin in the garden, covered with a green gold -glowed cloth. Moreover, Hanna’s family gathered. Before the prayers, a representative of the mayor of Graz also speaks to the many funeral guests, including many children and adolescents: “We have lost a person of our community with Hanna. No words will be able to donate comfort and fill holes.”
Hanna’s Sarg is now being transferred to Bosnia after the funeral service in Graz, where the young Austrian and her family are rooted. There she is buried next to her “favorite grandfather”, who died only a year ago.
Muslims put down wreath
In addition to Hanna, other children and adolescents belonged to the Amok victims. That is why representatives of the Islamic religious community in Austria (Iggö) and the styrics Muslims had also come to the Borg Dreierschützengasse to lay a wreath and white roses “sign of peace, coherence and hope”, as Igö president ümt emphasized.
Source: Krone
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