The victim “repeated his criticism that police often turned a blind eye regarding perpetrators with a foreign background.”
Yes. And why is that?
“Anti-Semitic attack in Hamburg: attacker played role in Holocaust film,” translated from “Antisemitische Attacke in Hamburg: Angreifer spielte Rolle in Holocaust-Film,” by Sandro Serafin, Tichys Einblick, October 2, 2021 (thanks to Medforth):
That reality in Germany sometimes surpasses the most absurd thought games is nothing new. The case of a brutal anti-Semitic attack on a Jew in Hamburg two weeks ago (TE reported) proves this once again. As has now become known, the alleged thug is a 16-year-old Arab with a German passport from Berlin, involved in the German-Hungarian film “Evolution,” which was shown on Friday at the Hamburg film festival. This revolves around three generations of a Jewish family – from the Shoah to the present day – and also deals with the question of “growing anti-Semitism in an apparently liberal society.”
It goes even further: The thug from Hamburg with the name Aram A. even plays the role of a Jew-hater who assaults a Jewish student. The scene can also be seen in a trailer. The acting agency in charge has, meanwhile, ended its cooperation with the anti-Semite, “even if Aram regrets the act, confesses, and faces a trial and a corresponding punishment,” as a statement said. The police tracked down the young person on Tuesday morning at his place of residence in Berlin. He was not arrested “because there were no grounds for detention.”
The case is almost a caricature of how anti-Semitism is dealt with in this country: While the problem plays a role again and again in unctuous speeches, in state-funded projects or in films, nothing changes in practice.
The victim of the attack, which took place during a small Israeli vigil in the city center, has since left the hospital. The 60-year-old Jew suffered a fractured cheekbone and nose. A piece of glass also entered his eye from the blow. He had to be operated on several times. In an interview with Bild-TV, the man was still battered, complained of headaches, eating problems and massive visual difficulties, as the pupil had enlarged as a result of the attack. That’s why he also wears an eye patch. “It will be a long time before this is really healed, if it all heals at all,” he said.
In the interview, the person concerned also repeated his criticism that police often turned a blind eye regarding perpetrators with a foreign background. A look at a police report from Tuesday underlines the problem: It only states that the suspect found is “a 16-year-old German.” There is no further background to the perpetrator. The anti-Semitism commissioner of the Hamburg Senate, Stefan Hensel, recently appealed: “Anti-Semitism must finally be named by politicians as the dramatic threat to Germany’s Jews that it is.” Perhaps the Senate should start with itself: The Governing Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD) has still not made any noticeable comments on the case.
jim says
This is practiced in many countries that are importing huge Muslim populations. When one of these new citizens commits crimes, their religion and culture and nationality are left out, as though they were just people from some part of the country, not Muslims. This is justified by the claim of being color-blind and not wanting to incite prejudice. But it also helps to keep citizens from being aware of demographic transformations and the clash of civilizations.