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A 26-year-old is attacked with a folding shovel near the synagogue
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Several policemen are standing in the cordoned off area in front of the synagogue in Hamburg.
Source: dpa / Jonas Walzberg
A 26-year-old was attacked near a Hamburg synagogue. The author is said to have been dressed in military clothing, beat him with a shovel, and carried a note with a swastika. He was arrested.
meon Sunday afternoon in Mann he attacked a 26-year-old in front of the Hamburg synagogue with a folding shovel and seriously wounded him. The police announced it at night. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (“SZ”) had previously reported an “apparently anti-Semitic attack” in which a man dressed in military clothing attacked a Jewish student with a shovel. According to information from the dpa, the 29-year-old is said to have had a sheet of paper with a swastika in his pocket.
Police initially did not comment on the crime’s history. A 29-year-old man wearing “Bundeswehr-like clothing” struck the 26-year-old on the head with a shovel and seriously injured him, but without endangering his life, he said.
According to the information, the 26-year-old was able to get to safety and received first aid from bystanders until rescuers arrived. Officials who were on site to protect the synagogue and observed the incident arrested the attacker. Now the background would be determined. State security had also been turned on.
According to the “SZ”, the many visitors to the synagogue were brought to safety. There they celebrated the Feast of Sukkot Tabernacles on Sunday.
The 29-year-old, who lives in Berlin, makes an “extremely confusing impression,” according to police. It was very difficult to question him, a police spokeswoman said Sunday night. The attacker is German with Kazakh roots. It is unclear where he got the military camouflage suit he wore during the afternoon crime. Initially, the spokeswoman was unable to provide further information on the crime’s history. The investigation continued.
Maas condemns the attack: “Disgusting anti-Semitism”
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) strongly condemned the attack. “In Hamburg, a man probably attacked a Jewish student in front of her synagogue with a shovel. This is not an isolated case, it is a disgusting anti-Semitism and we must all oppose it, ”Maas wrote Sunday night on Twitter. “My thoughts are with the student, I wish them a good recovery.”
If an anti-Semitic background were confirmed, dark memories of the attack on the Jewish church in Halle almost a year ago would be awakened.
On October 9, 2019, the heavily armed right-wing extremist Stephan Balliet attempted to storm the synagogue in Halle and cause a massacre of 52 visitors. At that time they celebrated the most important Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur.
When he was unsuccessful, he shot a passerby and a 20-year-old guest in a kebab shop. During his escape, the German wounded several people, some of them seriously. The proceedings against him are ongoing in Naumburg Higher Regional Court.
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