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Participants in a protest for the safety of Jewish students gathered in front of the FU's Mensa II.
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A brutal attack on a FU student caused horror in Berlin.
After the university, the Senate now also wants to draw conclusions.
Berlin - As a result of an attack on a Jewish student at the Free University, the Berlin Senate wants to tighten the higher education law.
The option to de-register students, which was only abolished in 2021, is to be reintroduced for certain cases.
Senate spokeswoman Christine Richter announced this on Tuesday after a Senate meeting.
Accordingly, the senators discussed the situation after Science Senator Ina Czyborra (SPD) reported.
The governing mayor Kai Wegner (CDU) and Czyborra then came to the conclusion that a change to the higher education law was necessary, said Richter.
Czyborra will now speak promptly with those responsible at the universities and colleges about what exactly the new regulations should look like.
According to the information, Berlin is the only federal state without the possibility of exmatriculating students.
The red-red-green coalition abolished such sanctions in 2021.
The current university law stipulates a maximum of three months' ban on entering the premises.
The Jewish FU student Lahav Shapira was hospitalized a week ago with broken bones in his face.
A pro-Palestinian fellow student is said to have hit and kicked him on a street in Berlin-Mitte.
The public prosecutor's office assumes a targeted attack and an anti-Semitic background.
The case caused great upheaval in the city after it became known and also put the management of the FU under pressure.
Senator Czyborra was confronted with calls for her resignation from the Central Council of Jews.
Above all, he criticized the fact that the senator initially saw no reason to change the Berlin Higher Education Act.
The FU has now banned the suspected attacker from entering the building for an initial period of three months.
Online teaching formats are not affected by the university's decision, it said.
dpa