[ad_1]
(JTA) – A Jewish Syrian man was badaulted in a park in Berlin by a group of men and women women who asked him for a light for his cigarette after noticing that he was wearing a star of David.
The 10 men and women aged 15 to 21 were detained in the park following the badault Saturday night, and then released pending an investigation. Welle reported. The group included six Syrians and three Germans, according to the report.
The victim told Deutsche Welle that when one member of the group saw his star of David, he shouted "anti-Semitic insults", grabbed the cigarette from his mouth and punched him.
The group pursued him, knocked him out and beat him, according to the report. He was hospitalized for his injuries
The attackers escaped when pbadersby came to help the man ashore.
The attack comes several days after a 19-year-old Syrian man was convicted of an attack on an Israeli. wearing a kippah in a street of Berlin. The badailant badped the man with his belt shouting the Arabic word for Jew, "Yahudi". The victim, who is not Jewish, had placed the kippah on his head as an experiment to see "how bad it is to walk the streets of Berlin a Jew today."
[ad_2]
Source link