1993 Solingen arson attack

1993 Solingen arson attack
Demonstration of Germans and Turks in front of the arson house
Solingen Solingen (North Rhine-Westphalia) Solingen Solingen (Germany)
Location	51°11′2.5″N 7°5′23.7″E Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Date	28 May 1993 (1993-05-28) (UTC+1)
Attack type	Arson, hate crime
Weapon	Gasoline
Deaths	5
Injured	14
Perpetrators	four Neo-Nazi skinheads
Motive	Anti-immigration, Racism, Right-wing extremism, Anti-Turkish sentiment, anti-Muslim sentiment

The Solingen arson attack (German: Solinger Brandanschlag) was one of the most severe instances of racist violence in modern Germany. On the night of 28–29 May 1993, four young German men (ages 16–23) belonging to the far right skinhead scene, with neo-Nazi ties, set fire to the house of a large Turkish family in the city of Solingen, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Three girls and two women died; fourteen other family members, including several children, were injured, some of them severely. The attack led to violent protests by Turkish diaspora members in several German cities and to large demonstrations of other Germans (of non-Turkish descent) expressing solidarity with the Turkish victims. In October 1995, the perpetrators were convicted of arson and murder and given prison sentences between 10 and 15 years. The convictions were upheld on appeal.