Far to the West, on the edge of the Tempelhofer field, colored new Zealand’s the evening sun in the clouds red, as they all sang together, “Whakaoria of may” – a traditional hymn of the Maori, the indigenous people. It is a song of lament, but at the same time full of hope. On Sunday afternoon, it expressed the feelings of more than 200 gathered new Zealanders. The small, well-networked and befriended the new Zealand Community in Berlin met on the Tempelhofer field to a spontaneously organized commemoration for the 50 victims of the radical right-wing massacre in Christchurch, new Zealand.
Harriet Spratt came despite the cold and icy Wind, on the former airfield. She lived and worked for six years in Berlin, is now offering Cookies and coffee on the quickly erected a folding table, sets a plate in front of it: “We stand against rassism” and says: “new Zealand was always apart of world events, somehow on the edge, Terror we took only remotely true.” But new Zealand would be after the attack last Friday, at 13.45 local time, and never more so as before.
Some have brought tulips bouquets, they hug, even children are with their parents. A young man stressed on the MIC: “We feel connected and in solidarity with the Muslim communities in new Zealand and around the world.”
So he says what a lot of believers, regardless of religious affiliation, moved on Sunday.
Appeals for tolerance towards all religions, the worship of the Christian communities in Berlin, but also the worship in the Jewish synagogues, and a number of mosques in particular. In St. Mary’s Church at Alexanderplatz, the Murdered was meant to be in “inter-religious community”. “Hatred, the same direction from which it comes, is devastating,” was the Central sermon set.
Also Roland Venesz, a Hungarian-born Software developer, inflamed before the new Zealand Embassy a candle.Photo: Lars von Törne
in Front of the Embassy of new Zealand Friedrichstrasse 60 / corner Leipziger Straße in Mitte we have now created an improvised memorial with bouquets of flowers, candles and signs, in which people Express their condolences. In the evening Roland Venesz, a Hungarian-born Software developer, inflamed, and a candle. “Any kind of terrorism shocked me,” he said. The reaction of the state media in Hungary had startled him. The act of terrorism there has hardly been reported, probably because the victims were Muslims.
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In the new Zealand Embassy there is as yet no official memorial or condolence book. The Embassy team would like to but by Facebook “for all the sympathy, solidarity and support that we have received from our friends in this sad time.”
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