(AP) The German government said Wednesday that the country will formally commemorate the victims of terrorism every March 11, starting next month.
The date marks the anniversary of 2004 bomb attacks in Madrid and is already commemorated each year by the European Union.
Germany’s top security official said the Cabinet approved adopting the date for a national remembrance day for the victims of terrorist violence.
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said acts such as the Islamic extremist attack on a Berlin Christmas market in 2016 and far-right killings in Hanau and Halle had shaken Germany, too.
