It was one of a string of incidents that led authorities to declare the far right and neo-Nazis Germany’s top security threat. Also this week, a musician claimed he was turned away from a hotel in eastern city Leipzig for wearing a Star-of-David pendant. While the allegations prompted a fierce response from a Jewish community unsettled by increasing anti-Semitic crimes, several investigations have been mounted into contradictory accounts of the incident. In 2019, police recorded 2,032 anti-Semitic crimes, an increase of 13 percent year-on-year. “The threat is complex and comes from different directions” from jihadists to the far right, the federal government’s commissioner for the fight against anti-Semitism Felix Klein said recently.

Source: The Local October 09, 2021 14:37 UTC