21-year-old Halit Yozgat was assassinated in broad daylight, in his family’s internet cafe on April 6, 2006 in Kassel Germany. Five witnesses were present in the 77 square metre space when Halit was shot twice in the head. Remarkably, an undercover agent from the German secret service was among those present in the cafe at the time of the murder, yet he claimed not to have heard gunfire nor noticed Halit slumped at the front desk.

A counter-investigation by London-based research agency Forensic Architecture inspired the Australian composer and director Ben Frost to write the opera The Murder of Halit Yozgat.

Commissioned by Staatoper Hannover presented by Holland Festival

Based on a counter-investigation by Forensic Architecture originally commissioned by TheSocietyof FriendsofHalit and www.nsu-tribunal.de