The young man acted to prevent the publication of the publication, but in the end the complaint was filed against him for incitement • "I never thought such a thing would happen to me"
Graffiti of swastika.
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A member of the Jewish community in Cologne, Germany, who expressed resentment on Twitter over antisemitic publicity, found himself accused of distributing antisemitic content.
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A (the name was kept at his request in the system for fear of harming elderly relatives), a member of the Jewish community in Cologne and a German and Israeli dual citizen, saw a week ago a Facebook group post on an antisemitic poster distributed in a train car in his city.
The poster read: "Do we have a corona problem or a Jewish problem?".
Subsequently, it was claimed that the heads of government in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Health Minister Jens Schaefen were Jews.
"The more Jews there are in politics and the media, the more terrible the conditions become," the summary said in the antisemitic publication.
Last week SA tweeted the photo of the antisemitic post on Twitter with the added comment: "It can not be, not in the Germany of 2021."
He also tagged the German police, so that it would act against the spread of antisemitic publicity.
The tweet received many responses and was circulated by hundreds of people on social media, but a protest against anti-Semitism by a member of the Jewish community took an absurd turn on Thursday when Cologne police informed him that a complaint had been filed against him for spreading antisemitic incitement and an investigation had begun.
In coordination with the municipal prosecution SA was summoned for questioning, after he was advised to delete his protest tweet.
"I experience anti-Semitism on a daily basis in Germany," he told Israel Today, "I published the tweet to document anti-Semitism and not to spread it. I never thought such a thing would happen to me. I have been seriously considering leaving Germany and immigrating to Israel for some time now. "After what happened to me, that thought grows."