2023-10-18 11:24:51
On Wednesday night, unknown people attacked a Jewish community center in Berlin. The synagogue there was already destroyed once – during Reichsprogromnacht. Members of the Kahal Adass Israel community feel “targeted.”
It’s half past four in the night when Anna Segal is woken up by her husband. There was an arson attack on the community center. He’s going there straight away. The 37-year-old has not returned to bed since then.
Ten o’clock in the morning, Anna Segal is standing behind red and white police tape. The two bottles of liquid landed somewhere on the sidewalk, a few steps away from her. They were thrown to the side, Segal heard, so that the police officer in the guard hut in front of the house of the Kahal-Adass-Isroel community on Berlin’s Brunnenstrasse mightn’t see anything. The perpetrators hid behind a red garbage container on the opposite side of the street, says another member of the community. The police believe there were two perpetrators who threw “two burning bottles filled with liquid in the direction of the synagogue” around 3:45 a.m. The incendiary devices landed on the sidewalk and then went out.
“Then Hamas would have won”
“I fluctuate between panic and anxiety. The feeling that I have to pack my bags and get out of here,” says Anna Segal, the managing director of the Kahal Adass Israel community. “On the other hand, Hamas would have won.” She has lived in Berlin for nine years and felt safe. Now she turns around every time she leaves her house. She checks whether someone might have painted a Star of David on her front door. Graffiti has appeared in various corners of the city: Stars of David on walls, and on a remnant of the Berlin Wall at the East Side Gallery, unknown people wrote: “Kill Jews.”
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