"You Jews did this with the Corona": A youth coach from TSV Maccabi Munich is insulted during a walk and is badly anti-Semitic.
- Max Brym is a youth football coach at TSV Maccabi.
- Not far from the Chinese tower, Brym was insulted by a "corona denier".
- However, the trainer wants to continue wearing his club jacket proudly.
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Munich - It exists. Racism. Anti-Semitism. In everyday life. And the corona crisis has made hatred grow. This is shown not only by the statistics officially published in the federal government, but also by a brand new incident in Munich . Max Brym is a youth football coach at TSV Maccabi . A Jewish sports club that sees itself as a bridge builder, condemns all discrimination and is open to all nationalities.
A week ago, as is so often the case, Brym took his dog Richy for a walk near the Chinese Tower when a cyclist stopped and shouted at him : “You Jewish pigs are to blame! You Jews did that with the Corona! You Jewish bastard! ”When Brym approached him, the man drove away. The anti-Semitism reporting office RIAS Bayern posted this incident on its Facebook page on Wednesday (May 27) . Brym reported there. It was important to the 62-year-old that the public found out about the incident. He has also filed a complaint with the police.
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Brym's father survived the Holocaust and 18 of his relatives were murdered. The freelance author wore a TSV Maccabi Munich training jacket with the club name and a large Star of David on his walk. Witnesses saw the insults, looked briefly, but then went on , he reports. "This encroachment shows that and how the thinking, which was expressed in many places in the Corona demos, is also specifically aimed at people in everyday life," explains Annette Seidel-Arpaci, head of RIAS Bayern. According to Brym, the cyclist wore a T-shirt with the words " Corona denial " and "Vaccination opponent".
The chairwoman of the Jewish community in Munich and Upper Bavaria, Charlotte Knobloch, is also shocked by the anti-Semitic attack.
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Charlotte Knobloch, the leader of the Jewish community, is shocked.
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The incident shows how threatening the atmosphere has become. "We have been observing this development for years, and not only since hatred of Jews received a new projection surface with the spread of the corona virus," explains Knobloch.
The Free State wants to improve the persecution of anti-Semitic crimes. A guide to prosecutors was released on Wednesday . Bavaria's Justice Minister Georg Eisenreich (CSU) said that it should make it easier for investigators to identify anti-Jewish acts as such. Hostility to Jews has "many robes".
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Eisenreich refers to incidents during corona demonstrations. Messages such as "Vaccination makes you free" including a yellow Jewish star and posters with the inscription "The final solution to the corona question" were to be read there. The public prosecutor's office in Munich has started preliminary investigations. According to official statistics in Bavaria, more than 300 anti-Semitic crimes were committed in 2019 . Officially, without undisclosed numbers. Nationwide, the number of registered crimes rose by 13 percent in the previous year to 2032.
For Max Brym, who coaches a C youth team at Maccabi, it was not the first time that his jacket had negative reactions. On a bus ride to training, for example, passengers asked him what kind of club it was. When he replied, "A Jewish sports club," it said, "Oh, something, again from the Jews." Robby Rajber, president of TSV Maccabi, looks at the anti-Semitic attack with great concern , but believes that such hostility is severe Were an exception.
Despite the assault, Max Brym does not want to continue hiding in public. "The jacket stays on," he says.
