The birth of quintuplets in Würzburg in 1988 was a sensation. People across Germany were thrilled. Because whether the refugee family would be allowed to stay was unclear.
A quintuplet is always a small sensation. After all, the probability of this is just 1:50 million. The birth of Bilal Hassan and his siblings Mandy, Khalil, Mohammed and Khaled on March 3, 1988 in the Würzburg University Clinic had a very different explosiveness. At that time, media across Germany reported on the five newborns. Bilal Hassan’s parents and his four older siblings, who belong to the Lebanese Kurdish ethnic group, had fled from Lebanon to Germany in 1979. In the home of the family ruled until the 199s …
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