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taz profiles Serkan Yıldırım, NSU's first bombing victim in 1999

Years before the far-right terror cell exposed itself in 2011, it planted a bomb in a Nuremberg café; the survivor only learned the truth much later.

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What to know

  • Serkan Yıldırım survived a bomb planted in his family's café in Nuremberg on June 23, 1999—the NSU terror cell's first attack, though he did not learn this for years.
  • Authorities, lawyers, and journalists knew the bombing was a right-extremist attack before Yıldırım did; he was left with unanswered questions while others held the truth.
  • The NSU exposed itself in November 2011 after conducting numerous murders; taz's profile of Yıldırım marks the 15th anniversary of that exposure and documents how the bombing's first survivor coped with long isolation.

Serkan Yıldırım Bombing survivor, NSU's first victimNSU (Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund) Far-right terror cell

taz profiles Serkan Yıldırım, NSU's first bombing victim in 1999
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    taz publishes profile of bombing survivor Yıldırım

    Ahead of the 15th anniversary of the NSU's 2011 self-exposure, taz profiles Serkan Yıldırım, revealing how he remained unaware for years that authorities, lawyers, and journalists knew his injuries came from a right-extremist attack while he struggled alone with unanswered questions.

    “Jahrelang habe ich zu Hause mit den Wänden darüber geredet, was 1999 passiert ist…”
    — Serkan Yıldırım
    • taz.de

      Am 4. November 2011 enttarnte sich der „NSU“ selbst, nachdem er bereits viele Morde begangen hatte. Das erste Opfer bekam kaum Aufmerksamkeit: Serkan Yıldırım 👉️

      taz.deBluesky4d ago440▲view on Bluesky ↗
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  2. background

    NSU terror cell self-exposes after years of attacks — The National Socialist Underground reveals itself, having conducted numerous murders over more than a decade. It later emerges that Yıldırım's 1999 bombing was their first attack.

  3. background

    Police launch investigation into Nuremberg bombing — Criminalpolizei Nuremberg begins investigation on the evening of the attack; the Bavarian State Criminal Police later assume the case.

  4. background

    Bomb explodes in Yıldırım's café in Nuremberg — Serkan Yıldırım, 18, opens Café Sonnenschein with his parents near Nuremberg central station on June 22. The next morning, while cleaning before opening, he finds a black object on a toilet that he mistook for a flashlight. When he picks it up, it detonates—a metal pipe filled with black powder, deliberately constructed as a device but defectively assembled. The explosion injures him severely.

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