“I’ll cut you open”
Israeli attacked with kebab knife in Berlin
November 12, 2023, 12:05 a.m
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Because a filmmaker from Israel is distributing stickers with the Star of David in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin, a store employee pounces on him with his kebab knife. The attacker threatens to cut the throat of the 37-year-old Jew. The police initiate criminal proceedings.
A 37-year-old Israeli who wanted to distribute Star of David stickers was attacked and threatened in front of a grocery store in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The man was not injured, but the lens on his camera was broken, a police spokeswoman said in the evening. The attacker was an employee of the store. Criminal proceedings were initiated against him for threats and damage to property.
The 59-year-old was upset about the sticker campaign and said: “Not here!” explained the spokeswoman. An argument then developed in front of the store, with the store employee attacking the Israeli. He shouted: “I’ll cut you open!” He also ran his index finger and thumb over his own throat, which was meant as a threat.
“I’ve never been attacked like this before”
According to the “Bild” newspaper, the person attacked was the Israeli filmmaker Gilad Sade. The paper quotes him as saying: “The man stormed towards me with a kebab knife. Then he hit my camera and my face. Luckily I wasn’t hurt. I didn’t understand what he was saying, everything went very well fast.” Sade told “Bild” that he was currently in Germany to shoot a film. “I have never been attacked like this before. I am not afraid for myself, but for all Jewish people. And our entire society.”
Since October 7th, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has registered more than 2,700 crimes across Germany in connection with the attacks on Israel by the radical Islamic Hamas. These mainly involved damage to property, incitement to hatred and resistance crimes, as the BKA told “Welt am Sonntag”. The number of violent crimes is in the “mid three-digit range”.