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More recently, the city became well known in the Anglosphere because of a May 29, 1993 arson incident, in which two women and three girls died in a fire attack on the house of a Turkish family in Solingen.

Seven more people were severely injured.

The fire was started by local Neo-Nazi's.

The incident ignited further controversy when the German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, refused to attend the funeral of the Solingen victims.