Target Turks Non-fatal injuries 22 Date 9 June 2004 Total number of deaths 0 | Weapons Pipe bomb Motive Xenophobia Location Cologne, Germany Attack type Bomb | |
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Suspected perpetrator National Socialist Underground (Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund) Similar 2016 Ansbach bombing, Solingen arson attack of, 1986 West Berlin discotheq, 2011 Frankfurt Airport sh, 2016 Würzburg train attack | ||
On 9 June 2004, a pipe bomb detonated in Cologne, Germany, in a business area popular with immigrants from Turkey. Twenty-two people were wounded, four sustained serious injuries. A barber's shop was completely destroyed, many shops and numerous parked cars were seriously damaged by the explosion and the nails added to the bomb for extra damage. Authorities initially excluded the possibility of a terrorist attack.
According to Der Spiegel, a Neo-Nazi group calling themselves "Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund“ (National Socialist Underground) claimed responsibility in a DVD found among the ruins of a semi-detached house in Zwickau, Germany, that exploded on 4 November 2011.
The group around Uwe Böhnhardt, Uwe Mundlos, and Beate Zschäpe was also indicted with the killing of nine businessmen of Turkish and Greek origin between 2000 and 2006, the so-called Döner murders as well as with the murder of Michéle Kiesewetter in 2007.