Germany offered financial aid Tuesday to the families of 14 Germans killed in a blast at a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba last month.
"We want to do everything we can to make your lives easier, you who suddenly became victims for no reason," Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin wrote in a letter to the loved ones of those killed.
On May 17th, Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag voted in favor of a proposition by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to earmark 10 million Euros (9.2 million dollars) for those affected.
Daeubler-Gmelin said in the letter that the amount of money offered would be decided on an individual basis after talks with those concerned and legal officials.
Nineteen people, 14 of them German tourists, were killed when a fuel truck blew up outside the synagogue on April 11 in what investigators say was an attack carried out by the driver, AFP reported. (Albawaba.com)
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