BERLIN — The name says it all: "The Doner Kebab" murders.
From 2000 to 2006, nine men died at the hands of a serial killer across Germany. All of them with foreign heritage, and all but one of Turkish background. Only two were actual vendors who sold doner kebabs, a common street snack in Germany.
But the moniker, smacking of stereotypes and prejudices of Turkish-Germans, continued to stick as the killings went on.
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