Berlin – On Monday morning, the father left
the apartment in Charlottenburg, where the family resides and was frightened to
see his vehicle. An unknown person had engraved a swastika on the hood cover.
It seems that the perpetrators were disturbed in the middle of their work,
since they did not manage to carve another swastika which they had started.
According to the police spokeswoman, the Department for State Security, which
is in charge of investigating politically motivated acts of vandalism, has
launched an investigation. The vehicle owner was told in the garage that the
repair would cost him about 1500 Euros.
This is not the first time the police
have been investigating politically motivated acts against the family. On
February 2010, immigrant children and youngsters of Turkish and Arab origin
stopped the family’s children in the street. They hurled at them snowballs and
small rocks. Finally they threw snowballs mixed with small rocks through the
window into the family’s apartment. The police talked with the parents of the
youngsters and they have apologized to the family.
But this went on. “When I passed by a
group of people someone said: ‘Phew, it stinks of Jews here,’” recalls the
father of the family. During the war in Gaza of the past summer, a group of youngsters
shouted anti-Semitic screams at the man (aged 40, who prefers to speak
anonymously). “They shouted at me: ‘Hitler, Hitler… Jew… Israel.”
