Hamburg – Germany: Rabbi And Jewish Leader Spat On Outside City Hall In An Anti-Semitic Attack

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    FILE - Shlomo BistritzkyHamburg – A rabbi from Hamburg was spat on and accosted during an anti-Semitic incident on the street.

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    Shlomo Bistritzky, regional chief rabbi in Hamburg and local Jewish community member Eliezer Noe were leaving a meeting with Mayor Peter Tschentscher in Hamburg city hall on Thursday afternoon when a passerby threatened them and spat on them, German media reported.

    A 45-year-old man of Moroccan background was arrested after a struggle with police.

    Bistritzky told the Hamburg Abendblatt newspaper that the man first said “Shalom” to them.

    “Then he said something that sounded threatening. We faced him and asked him what he had said,” Bistritzky continued. “He then reached under his shirt and pulled out something… and began to threaten us verbally.”

    The object reportedly turned out to be a lighter; the man held out the open flame while spewing insults and spitting at the men. He reportedly spoke both Arabic and German.

    Bistritzky took a cell phone photo of the man and ran back to the city hall, where police were standing. The officers attempted to speak with the man, who then tried to flee, while spitting on Bistritzky and Noe again.

    Eventually, police subdued and arrested the man, placing a “spit protection hood” on him.

    Bistritzky told the Abendblatt that he “never thought something like this could happen in Hamburg, let alone in this spot. We took it as a bad sign, too, that the attacker was released after two hours.”

    The state police have taken over the investigation.


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    yosher
    yosher
    4 years ago

    For returning to Germany, we should all spit on them.

    Bezalel
    Bezalel
    4 years ago

    I hope the “spit protection hood” was a plastic bag that was tightly sealed around the neck and that was secured in place for a few hours.

    4 years ago

    We can thank Angela Merkel for letting over 1,000,000 Arabs into Germany. She did it because of Germany’s past, and how she wanted to show the world that Germany was open to refugees of all races. Hungary, on the other hand, kept those scum out of their country, and have not experienced the problems that Germany has dealt with over the last three years.

    triumphinwhitehouse
    triumphinwhitehouse
    4 years ago

    another victim of islam