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Attack in Berlin: The 43-year-old reported after the attack
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The state rabbi of the Jewish community in Potsdam was apparently attacked and insulted with anti-Semitism in Berlin on Tuesday morning.
Ariel Kirzon was insulted as a "terrible shit Jew" and physically attacked, reported the RBB after a conversation with the rabbi.
According to the Berlin police, the state security of the State Criminal Police Office is investigating the attack.
After the attack, the 43-year-old reported to the police for assault and insult.
His son has been very scared since the attack, the rabbi told RBB.
The police had already published a press release shortly after the anti-Semitic incident, but did not comment on the identity of the attacked man.
Accordingly, the 43-year-old attacked accompanied his son in the Mariendorf district of Berlin and was on the phone in Hebrew.
An unknown man came towards him, bumped into his shoulder and insulted him in an anti-Semitic manner, it was said.
Accordingly, the perpetrator removed after the attack in the direction of the Westphalweg underground station.
Since it cannot be ruled out that he entered the subway station, the recordings made by the video camera installed there were secured, the police said.
The Brandenburg Minister of Science and Culture Manja Schüle (SPD) called the attack on Twitter "completely unacceptable".
Environment and consumer protection senator Bettina Jarasch wrote on the same medium that she was in solidarity with Kirzon.
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