Dozens of police forces searched the Democratic Kurdish Society Center in Hanau at 7 pm on Friday. According to the public prosecutor's search warrant, the measure was ordered for an event dating back to 25 October 2021 and organised to commemorate the martyrs of the Kurdish liberation struggle. Banners and flags were confiscated during the search.

A press conference was organised on Sunday in the Kurdish Society Center in Darmstadt. The co-chair of the Hanau social center, Ömer Koyuncer, said: “The German police are searching our associations under a number of pretexts. The Democratic Kurdish Society Center Hanau was founded in 1993 to respond to the social and cultural needs of the Kurdish people in the diaspora. We do not accept the raid of our association and call on our people to stand behind the association. The real reason for the search is clear. The fact that a number of Turkish-speaking police officers were involved in the raid speaks for itself.”

The co-chair of the FCDK KAWA Federation, Abdülvahap Alper, said: "The German public prosecutor's office has no right to intervene against our association. The German state has to take the rights of the Kurdish people into account. We are a legal association and all our activities take place within a legal framework. We are a people fighting for our freedom. The German state knows that. We have the right to carry out activities. That should be clear to the German state.”

Representatives of the Kurdish Islam movement (Civaka Islamiya Kurdistan) and the Yazidi committee also spoke up and called for solidarity with the Kurdish associations.