"Hundreds joined the 32nd edition of the annual 'Peace Walk' - a torchlight procession in Eindhoven - to honour the victims of a wave of attacks on migrants in the early 1990s and promote peace, tolerance, and unity. Footage filmed on Wednesday shows participants marching through the city streets with lit torches before gathering at Wilhelminaplein to listen to speeches. The chairman of the Eindhoven Torchlight Procession Foundation said that the tradition started in 1992 and is not particularly connected with the Solingen attack that happened in May 1993. "This initiative dates back to the 1990s, after an event of an arsenic attack in Germany against a home of asylum seekers. And so we start, we have to show that we are for and in favour of peace, that we want to support the connection between people, respect, freedom, trust and respect between one another in our city," he said. In 1992, Germany was rocked by a surge in anti-immigrant violence, including riots and arson attacks that shocked the country. Among the most notorious incidents were the riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen and a deadly arson attack in Molln, where three members of a Turkish family were killed. On May 29, 1993, a right-wing arson attack in Solingen also killed two women and three girls from a Turkish-German family, an act widely regarded as one of Germany's worst hate crimes since World War II. The procession in Eindhoven was established to reject the rising tide of hatred and as a symbol of peace and solidarity. Since then, it draws thousands of people annually to Wilhelminaplein, where the city's community celebrates diversity and goodwill."