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It is around four thirty in the afternoon on Saturday when a group of about 20 people walk through Sonnenallee in Berlin-Neukölln. They are led by an Arabic-speaking man, dressed in traditional white robes and with a red and white keffiyeh on his head.
He leads a person down the street with a rope: he is wearing a black suit, a blonde wig and a mask. It is the face of French President Emmanuel Macron, who has become one of the main enemy images of the Islamic world after the assassination of French professor Samuel Paty by an Islamist.
A video, recorded by a passerby, shows the action. It is available in the daily mirror. “Yallah, Yallah,” yells the man in the white robe and shoves the person with the Macron mask across the busy street like a prisoner. In his other hand he wears a black leather belt that serves as a whip. In Arabic he insults the man by calling him “vermin” and “dog”.
A blow hits the disguised person. Another young man is filming what is happening, and many young people, some of them still young, follow them. The scene recalls the public humiliations and flogging in the Islamist autocracies.
The incident does not say anything to the Berlin police on request, no one has alerted them to it. It is not yet clear whether it is an act with an Islamist background.
Youtuber arrested by police
Everything indicates that it is an action of the YouTubers of Syrian origin Fayez Kanfash. He is in his twenties and lives in Berlin. Kanfash was arrested at least briefly by the police on Saturday night, as shown by a video circulating in one of his fan groups. Apparently he was also at Alexanderplatz with the person wearing the Macron mask.
It is not clear why he was arrested; the police have not yet confirmed it. It is unclear whether the action was intended to be satirical, was purely a provocation, or was actually carried out out of offended religious pride.
The group walking down Sonnenallee on Saturday afternoon comes from the Hermannplatz direction. Since the beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty on October 16, groups of Muslim men had gathered there more frequently to protest. They hadn’t thought of the teacher there, but they protested against Emmanuel Macron and the Mohammed cartoons, which helped spark the current unrest in France.
Teacher Paty had shown them to her students in class to raise awareness about freedom of expression. Then he had to die. Since then, more people have been killed by Islamists in France.
More homophobic and trans-hostile attacks in Neukölln
Thomas Fröhlich from the initiative “Dishonorable instead of defenseless” witnessed the scene of Sonnenallee. Their initiative was founded in 2018 in response to the homophobic and trans-hostile attacks in Neukölln: they are left-wing and queer people, members of the Neukölln-based art and pub scene.
Fröhlich says: “The fact that Macron is shown here with long blond hair as a fag who is supposed to symbolize the West as weak, ‘abnormal’ and decadent is part of the Islamist propaganda campaign.”
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He and his colleagues have long worried about the frequency with which they believe that gays, transsexuals, women, androgynous hipsters and Israelis who have settled in the north of the district are targeted. The figures from the Maneo homosexual project against violence support the thesis: the number of LGBT * hostile acts reported in Neukölln more than doubled between 2017 (32) and 2019 (65).
On Monday at 11:15 am a minute of silence will be observed in Berlin secondary schools for the murdered Samuel Paty. According to information from Tagesspiegel, Berlin principals and teachers fear disruptive cations. In response to a request from the Tagesspiegel, police said they were not on high alert.
