Around 10,000 protesters have marched through the central German town of Hanau to mourn the nine people who were killed by a gunman with anti-immigrant views.
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A defiant Hanau mayor Claus Kaminsky addressed the sombre crowds four days after a 43-year-old German man shot to death nine people in the Frankfurt suburb before apparently killing his mother and himself.
"These days and hours are the blackest and darkest our town has ever experienced during peace times," Kaminsky said, according to German news agency dpa.
But, he said, those who want to pull apart society won't succeed, "because we are more and we will prevent that".
Five of the victims of Wednesday's shooting were reported to be Turkish citizens.
The attacker left rambling texts and videos in which he espoused racist views, called for genocide and claimed to have been under surveillance since birth.
Turkey's ambassador to Germany, Ali Kemal Aydin, warned that Turkish immigrants in Germany are experiencing more and more hate crimes in the country.
"This cannot and this must not continue," Aydin said at the protest.
The racist killings were Germany's third deadly far-right attack in a matter of months.
Australian Associated Press