>Israeli participants in the European Championships became the target of an anti-Semitic attack on Tuesday evening. A security guard of Arab origin showed the Hitler salute in the direction of 16 athletes who were on their way around the Olympic site to visit memorials to the massacre that took place 50 years ago.
>The incident occurred at 7:20 p.m. on the Hanns Braun Bridge, which connects the Olympic Stadium with the Olympic Village – and thus in the immediate vicinity for the “Klagebalken” memorial, which commemorates the Israeli athletes murdered there in 1972. Senior Public Prosecutor Andreas Franck, the Bavarian judiciary’s anti-Semitism officer, wants to take over the case.
>Police officers accompanying the Israeli delegation to the memorial and other memorials noticed the anti-Semitic incident. The suspect is a 19-year-old native of Berlin who bears an Arab name and has German citizenship. He is being investigated for using symbols of unconstitutional organizations. Section 86a of the Criminal Code provides for a fine or imprisonment of up to three years.
>Tuesday’s incident was made even more explosive by the anti-Semitic outbursts of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Chancellor’s Office on the same day. At a press conference, the state guest had not apologized for the bloody terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympics when asked, but on the contrary relativized the Shoah and equated Israeli policies with the Holocaust.
>In Munich’s Olympic Park, several memorials commemorate the eleven Israeli victims of the attack carried out by the Palestinian terrorist organization “Black September” on September 5, 1972. On the granite “Lamentation Bar” created in 1995 by Landshut sculptor Fritz Koenig, the names of Mosche Weinberg, Yossef Romano, Zeev Friedman, David Mark Berger, Yakov Springer, Eliezer Halfin, Yossef Gutfreund, Kehat Shorr, Mark Slavin, André Spitzer and Amitzur Schapira engraved in Hebrew letters, that of the Bavarian policeman Anton Fliegerbauer, who died during the liberation attempt in Fürstenfeldbruck, in Latin letters.
And they say migrants don’t integrate well with the local culture.
The moderators of the largest German-speaking sub deleted the article within 5 minutes because a Hitler salute to Israeli athletes exactly 50 years after the massacre of isreali athletes during the Olympics in Munich is obviously “only locally/regionally relevant”.
That’s how you get from “security employee” to “former security employees” real quick. At least I hope so.
Edit: just read that the entire security firm was banned from the event, good job.
I’m not surprised, it’s an “enemy of my enemy is my friend” thing. Once I saw photos of a European man doing a Nazi salute only to be instantly stopped by a German cop. Also, I once saw a video of a Free Palestine protest where many Arabs were Nazi saluting and praising Hitler whilst multiple German cops did nothing but watch in silence. 🤦♀️
European Championships in Munich: Berlin born Muslim Security employee shows Israeli athletes the Hitler salute
TIL: Israel is now participating in europeans championships events….
Lmao, maybe you ruined the mood of those Israelis for a day or two but now watch the law come down on you with very long lasting consequences MF
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Translated via deepl:
>Israeli participants in the European Championships became the target of an anti-Semitic attack on Tuesday evening. A security guard of Arab origin showed the Hitler salute in the direction of 16 athletes who were on their way around the Olympic site to visit memorials to the massacre that took place 50 years ago.
>The incident occurred at 7:20 p.m. on the Hanns Braun Bridge, which connects the Olympic Stadium with the Olympic Village – and thus in the immediate vicinity for the “Klagebalken” memorial, which commemorates the Israeli athletes murdered there in 1972. Senior Public Prosecutor Andreas Franck, the Bavarian judiciary’s anti-Semitism officer, wants to take over the case.
>Police officers accompanying the Israeli delegation to the memorial and other memorials noticed the anti-Semitic incident. The suspect is a 19-year-old native of Berlin who bears an Arab name and has German citizenship. He is being investigated for using symbols of unconstitutional organizations. Section 86a of the Criminal Code provides for a fine or imprisonment of up to three years.
>Tuesday’s incident was made even more explosive by the anti-Semitic outbursts of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the Chancellor’s Office on the same day. At a press conference, the state guest had not apologized for the bloody terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympics when asked, but on the contrary relativized the Shoah and equated Israeli policies with the Holocaust.
>In Munich’s Olympic Park, several memorials commemorate the eleven Israeli victims of the attack carried out by the Palestinian terrorist organization “Black September” on September 5, 1972. On the granite “Lamentation Bar” created in 1995 by Landshut sculptor Fritz Koenig, the names of Mosche Weinberg, Yossef Romano, Zeev Friedman, David Mark Berger, Yakov Springer, Eliezer Halfin, Yossef Gutfreund, Kehat Shorr, Mark Slavin, André Spitzer and Amitzur Schapira engraved in Hebrew letters, that of the Bavarian policeman Anton Fliegerbauer, who died during the liberation attempt in Fürstenfeldbruck, in Latin letters.
And they say migrants don’t integrate well with the local culture.
The moderators of the largest German-speaking sub deleted the article within 5 minutes because a Hitler salute to Israeli athletes exactly 50 years after the massacre of isreali athletes during the Olympics in Munich is obviously “only locally/regionally relevant”.
That’s how you get from “security employee” to “former security employees” real quick. At least I hope so.
Edit: just read that the entire security firm was banned from the event, good job.
I’m not surprised, it’s an “enemy of my enemy is my friend” thing. Once I saw photos of a European man doing a Nazi salute only to be instantly stopped by a German cop. Also, I once saw a video of a Free Palestine protest where many Arabs were Nazi saluting and praising Hitler whilst multiple German cops did nothing but watch in silence. 🤦♀️
European Championships in Munich: Berlin born Muslim Security employee shows Israeli athletes the Hitler salute
TIL: Israel is now participating in europeans championships events….
Lmao, maybe you ruined the mood of those Israelis for a day or two but now watch the law come down on you with very long lasting consequences MF