The police were quickly on site Photo: Mareike Drünkler
By Mareike Drünkler
Attack on an Israeli journalist in Berlin!
The Israeli journalist Gilad Sade (37) was attacked on Saturday afternoon around 2 p.m. in the Ali Baba restaurant on Bleibtreustrasse in Charlottenburg. Together with film producer friends Michael Simon de Normier (50) and Sascha Suden (58), the journalist distributed stickers from the “Berlin Welcomes Jews” initiative to restaurants and shops on Schlüterstrasse. The police were there within a few minutes.
Sade: “We were at the restaurant to hand out the stickers.
Gilad Sade (37) was attacked Photo: Mareike Drünkler
A man rushed towards me. He then hit my camera and my face. Luckily I wasn’t injured. I didn’t understand what he was saying, everything happened very quickly.”
The attacked Gilad Sade came to Germany for a film project. On the exact date of the progrom night. And he himself becomes a victim of pure anti-Semitism and hatred!
“I’m currently in Germany to make a film – 85 years after the Reichsprogromnacht. “I’ve never been attacked like that before.” He is shocked. “I am not afraid for myself, but for our society and for all Jewish people.”
Friedrich Merz met the group by chance before the crime Photo: private
His friend, film producer Michael Simon de Normier, witnessed the crime. “I never thought something like this could happen here. I’m horrified.”
The police are investigating the crime.
A previous version of the article mentioned a knife was used in the attack. This could not be confirmed.