I.112 The Index of Repression
Updated 25 Feb 2026 - Date of Incident
- 2019 – Ongoing
- Location
- Germany
- Forums
- Legal Process, Web Platform
- Commissioned By
- European Legal Support Center (ELSC)
- Summary
- For decades, across Europe and the US, acts of solidarity with Palestine have been silenced by states, and by institutions. Since the genocide in Gaza escalated, from October 2023 onwards, incidents of repression have increased across civil society. The Index presents data collected by the ELSC, drawing patterns between almost 2,000 such incidents, in the UK and Germany.
SP.5 Police Violence and Misinformation at the 2025 Nakba Day Protest, Berlin · Supported Project ↗
- Date of Incident
- 15 May 2025
- Location
- Berlin
- Forums
- Media
- An FA-supported project by
- Forensis
- Summary
- Since October 2023, demonstrations in solidarity with the people of Palestine have been subjected to significant police violence, but also misinformation. Following the annual Nakba Day demonstration, Berlin Police claimed an officer had been severely injured by violent protesters. Our analysis of video evidence showed every one of their claims to be false.
SP.3 German Arms Exports to Israel · Supported Project ↗
- Date of Incident
- 07.10.2023 - Ongoing
- Location
- Germany, Israel, Palestine
- Forums
- Legal Process, Human Rights Report
- An FA-supported project by
- Forensis
- Summary
- Despite widespread recognition of the growing risk of genocide in Gaza, Germany continues to offer military support to Israel through the supply of arms. Our report on past, current, and potential future arms export licences and deliveries from Germany to Israel supports an urgent application filed by Berlin-based lawyers on behalf of Palestinians in Gaza to stop all such exports.
SP.81 Racist Terror Attack in Hanau: The Police Operation · Supported Project ↗
- Date of Incident
- 19 Feb 2020
- Location
- Hanau, Germany
- Forums
- Exhibition, Media, Parliamentary Inquiry
- Commissioned By
- Initiative 19. Februar
- Summary
- On 19 February 2020, nine people were murdered in a racist terror attack in Hanau, Germany. After the attack, the perpetrator went to his house, where he killed his mother, and himself. Police knew the perpetrator’s address early on but did not storm the house for almost five hours. We were asked by the victims’ families and the Initiative 19. Februar to examine how the police operation unfolded.
I.77 Racist Terror Attack in Hanau: The Arena Bar
- Date of Incident
- 19 Feb 2020
- Location
- Hanau, Germany
- Forums
- Media, Parliamentary Inquiry
- Commissioned By
- Initiative 19. Februar, Lawyers for the Gültekin family
- Summary
- On 19 February 2020, in Hanau, Germany, a racist terror attack left nine people dead, six of them in or near the local Arena bar. There are reports that the bar’s emergency exit was routinely locked, and the victims of the attack didn’t run towards it for that reason. We examined whether, had they tried to do so, and it had been open, they could have survived the attack.
I.24 The Murder of Halit Yozgat
- Date of Incident
- 06 Apr 2006
- Location
- Kassel, Germany
- Forums
- Citizens' Tribunal, Exhibition, Media, Parliamentary Inquiry
- Commissioned By
- The People's Tribunal 'Unraveling the NSU Complex'
- Summary
- Halit Yozgat was murdered by neo-Nazis at the desk of his internet café in Kassel, Germany, while a state intelligence agent was sitting just metres away. The agent claimed he didn’t hear the gunshots, didn’t smell the gunpowder, and didn’t see the body. Using digital models and 1:1 physical reconstructions, we tested those claims.