Anti-Semitic acts – Accused mostly Germans

From Hildburg Bruns

The numbers are alarming: criminal proceedings were instituted against 365 specific suspects last year – in purely arithmetical terms, one crime per day! Including 18 acts of violence such as assault, coercion, robbery.

The nationality of the suspects is surprising. In response to a parliamentary question by the AfD, the judiciary names the accused as follows:

► 284 have German citizenship
► 56 are stateless
► 5 have a Turkish passport
► 3 each come from Iran and 3 from Syria.

The judicial administration did not want to go into detail about the first names, since according to the authorities many are very rare, so there is “a concrete risk of identifying the suspect”.

“I’m not surprised by these statistics,” says Berlin’s anti-Semitism officer, Prof. Dr. Samuel Salzborn (45). Why not? “We know that the crimes often have a right-wing extremist background.” The Berlin FDP calls for police officers to be trained and sensitized to recognize and deal with anti-Semitism during their training and repeatedly during their service.

At the demo of shame with hate slogans (“Death to the Jews!”, “Death to Israel!”), participants waved the red, green and white Palestinian flag on Saturday. It is only now that incitement to hatred is being investigated.

But even at rallies, Salzborn assumes that the participants have lived here for a long time and possibly have a German passport. The expert: “It is extremely unlikely that refugees will take part in demonstrations after a short time and with an unsecured stay. You have other problems.”