This past weekend, 15 people gathered in Friedrich-Ebert-Park in Lahr, Baden-Württemberg, to commemorate Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”), a campaign of violence against Jews across Germany carried out by the Nazis in 1938.
Shops were destroyed, windows shattered, belongings were smashed, and synagogues were set on fire. Jews were forced to pay for all damages, and as many as 30,000 Jewish men were forcibly sent to concentration camps.
According to Bild, those gathered in Friedrich-Ebert-Park, many of whom were carrying Israeli flags, were met with hateful insults, and their commemoration was interrupted.
“The people gathered around 4:30 p.m. to commemorate and pray together,” a local police spokesperson said. Videos show the participants, including many elderly and a child, were singing when a man suddenly appeared with a Palestinian flag. He smiled and shouted, “Free Palestine.”
Other men arrived at the scene, shouting hate slogans against Israel and doing their best to put an end to the commemoration.
Unfortunately, the situation escalated, with one man grabbing an Israeli flag from a woman, running off with it, and trying to set it on fire.
A 17-year-old Syrian refugee was arrested soon after, accused of stealing the flag. Another 32-year-old man, reportedly a stateless Arab refugee, was also temporarily detained, according to Bild.
Both suspects are known to police.
Restaurateur Bilal Aloge, 50, had joined the memorial service and told Bild that there were 20 young men in total who arrived to disrupt the event. “It was terrible. We were constantly being called ‘sons of bitches,’ and ‘Death to Israel’ was being shouted. I estimate the number of troublemakers at around 20 young men. It was very threatening, we were afraid.”
Baden-Württemberg’s CDU Interior Minister Thomas Strobl, 65, released a statement: “It is shameful and completely unacceptable how antisemitic hatred, incitement, and violence have spread on our streets – I condemn this in the strongest terms.”
Lahr’s Mayor Markus Ibert, 57, is also shocked: “The incident has deeply shaken me. Such an act is not only an attack on a national symbol, but in the case of the Israeli flag, also on a symbol of Judaism – and last but not least, an attack on peaceful coexistence in our city.”
Author and radio host Julia Adrat reflected the shock many others are feeling as well, posting on X that refugees simply fear “no consequences. No deportation. No punishment.”
“Apart from the unacceptable antisemitism that has now flooded our country – one must realize how incredibly safe so-called “refugees” feel here: They attack a Jewish memorial event for the Night of the Pogroms, right in the middle of Germany, with women and children present, and they know full well: There will be no consequences. No deportation. No punishment. Germany will continue to pay for them. Unacceptable!”
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