By COLlive reporter
A man strolls for a few minutes near the synagogue in Essen, the tenth-largest city in Germany, and then picks up a concrete block and throws it at a window.
That is the scene that surveillance footage showed in what is being called the latest anti-Semitic attack in the country.
The window broken was of the office of Rabbi Shmuel Aronow, Chabad Shliach and the city’s Rabbi.
Luckily, no one was injured as the windows are well protected. “We averted a great disaster because the windows are bulletproof,” the rabbi told Hebrew website N12.
He said local police were called to investigate the incident and examine security footage.
“They also discovered that a similar event took place last week when a large concrete block was thrown at the synagogue window – though back then it didn’t shatter, so we didn’t notice it until yesterday,” he said.
Rabbi Aronow said “members of this usually quiet community are all shocked at this antisemitic incident… We expect the authorities to investigate and find those responsible for this and restore peace and order to the community.”
No arrested have been made.
Germany has seen a spike in antisemitic incidents in the past year, the Jerusalem Post reported. Most recently, in October, swastikas were painted over tributes to two victims of an antisemitic shooting attack that occurred last year at a synagogue in the city of Halle, Germany.
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Hopefully they won’t just say “it was just a violent person, and had nothing to do with being anti Semitic” be real people!!
Dangerous new group in Germany starting out now.