Berlin – A rabbi was reportedly assaulted by youths in the city’s western side on Tuesday, in what in a suspected antisemitic attack.
Rabbi Daniel Alter, 53, who was wounded in the attack, said the four men, reportedly of Arab extraction, who attack him also verbally abused his Jewish faith, and threatened to kill his six-year-old daughter.
According to police, the four suspects fled the scene of the attack, which took place in the peaceful Schöneberg neighborhood. An investigation has been initiated by local police.
While it was not yet clear as to what was the precise motivation behind the attack, it is believed that it was antisemitic in nature.
President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Dieter Graumann denounced the attack, sand said he was “dumbfounded.”
According to Graumann, the incident represented an “assault on our values, ones of tolerance and liberalism.”
Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit said that he denounced the “anti-Semitic attack in the harshest terms.”
