Berlin – The Israeli journalist Gilad Sade (37) was attacked on Saturday afternoon around 2 p.m. in the Ali Baba restaurant on Bleibtreustrasse in Charlottenburg.
The journalist accompanied film producer friends Michael Simon de Normier (50) and Sascha Suden (58) as they distributed stickers from the “Berlin Welcomes Jews” initiative in restaurants and shops on Schlüterstrasse. The police were there within a few minutes.
Sade: “We were at the restaurant to hand out the stickers. A man rushed towards me. He then hit my camera and my face. Luckily I wasn’t injured. I didn’t understand what he was saying, everything happened very quickly.”
The attacked on Gilad Sade came to Germany for a film project on the subject of stumbling blocks. On the exact date of the progrom night. And he himself becomes a victim of pure antisemitism and hatred!
“I am currently in Germany to make a film, 85 years after Kristallnacht. “I’ve never been attacked like that before.” He is shocked. “I am not afraid for myself, but for our society and for all Jewish people.”
His friend, film producer Michael Simon de Normier, had to witness the crime: “I never thought something like that could happen here. I’m horrified.”
The police are investigating the crime.
