Lahr within the Black Forest: Pogrom commemoration disrupted – younger particular person needed to set fireplace to Israel flag | EUROtoday

During a commemoration of the pogrom night time in Lahr within the Black Forest, a 17-year-old is alleged to have tried to set fireplace to an Israeli flag. The teenager was arrested as a part of a manhunt, the police stated. The emergency companies additionally arrested a 32-year-old suspect who is alleged to have insulted contributors within the memorial occasion. A search is underway for a 3rd, as but unknown man who is alleged to have broken one other flag. Nobody was injured.

As the police additionally introduced, round 15 folks with Israeli flags gathered in Friedrich-Ebert-Park within the afternoon to commemorate and pray collectively. A bunch of younger males, who, in keeping with earlier info, grew to become conscious of the occasion by probability, disrupted the assembly with loud shouts and insults. The 17-year-old is alleged to have subsequently stolen the flag.

On the night time of the pogrom on November 9, 1938, synagogues burned throughout Germany. Shops had been looted and destroyed. Jews had been mistreated, arbitrarily arrested and murdered.

Unknown folks injury Jewish memorial plaque in Pasewalk

It additionally occurred in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on November ninth. to an anti-Semitic incident. Unknown folks defaced a Jewish memorial plaque in Pasewalk. Several letters had been sprayed on the bottom, police stated. The memorial plaque commemorates the previous synagogue that was burned down there in the course of the Nazi pogrom night time. The letters don’t present any concrete indication of a exact political opinion, as a police spokesman stated. The prison police are investigating. The extent to which the crime was linked to the date can’t be decided from the letters and is a part of the investigation, it was stated.