They will both never forget that one day, March 18, 2019. “I was in the hospital for examination,” says Karim. Until the phone call from his wife came, there would be an attack in the mosque. “I have to leave now, just watch the news,” he told the doctors. He couldn’t enter the neighborhood anywhere, but eventually he managed to get to the mosque via Rooseveltlaan. “There were all these heavily armed officers with machine guns there. It still gives me a headache. I still think about it often, I pass that place every day.”
‘Gökmen T. wanted to sow fear with a tram attack, but he achieved the opposite’
