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| Israeli tourist in Belgium brutally attacked for peeling off anti-Israeli sticker |
| 2024-05-18 |
| [IsraelTimes] In police complaint, Amnon Ohana, 64, says his jaw was broken when he was attacked by 10 men in front of his daughter at a Bruges train station as conductor, passersby looked on An Israeli tourist was brutally attacked by several men in front of his daughter at a train station in the Belgian city of Bruges on Friday, after he was seen removing an anti-Israel sticker. The victim, Amnon Ohana, 64, and his daughter Shira, 29, told police in a complaint that his jaw was fractured when about 10 aggressors confronted him after he peeled the sticker from a wall at the train station. In a video of the incident filmed by his daughter, two men can be seen shouting at the Israelis from an elevated position, before one of them, a man in his twenties, descends a flight of stairs in pursuit of them as a train conductor and passersby look on. This altercation followed an earlier beating, which Ohana and his daughter escaped by running downstairs, the father said in the complaint. Downstairs, the assailant was filmed punching the Israeli man in the ribcage and pushing him to the floor, where he continues to assault him as the daughter films and screams for him to stop. "I have you on video, fuck off," the victim’s daughter can be heard yelling in the video. Ohana’s discharge letter from Oostende hospital confirmed that he had a fractured jaw and multiple contusions across his body. The Israeli embassy in Belgium filed a complaint on the incident, according to Hebrew media reports, demanding that the suspect be arrested and prosecuted. The Walla news site added that Israeli Ambassador to Belgium Idit Rosenzweig-Abu in Brussels was in contact with Ohana and his daughter. Rabbi Mencahem Margolin, director of the European Jewish Association, warned in a statement that the assault was part of an escalation of antisemitic violence that, unless curbed, may likely lead to loss of life. "It is no longer just verbal violence or spitting but real physical attacks that can end in disaster," Margolin said, calling on police to arrest the suspects, charge them with an antisemitic hate crime and punish them to the full extent of the law. Related: Bruges: 2024-02-17 President of Finland is being prepared for negotiations with Russia on behalf of the West Bruges: 2024-02-03 Belgian farmers lay siege to huge North Sea port and block Dutch border crossings while Germany grinds to a halt with crippling transport strikes as EU scrambles to defuse protest chaos engulfing Europe Bruges: 2021-07-21 Head of the Stavropol traffic police and his golden shitter |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 Before he picked the sticker off the wall he should have looked around. Endangering his daughter twice shows bad judgement. Next time you want to pick stickers off the wall make sure you don’t have an audience. |
| Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 2024-05-18 16:13 |
| #7 Good morning, TW. From last night's post. Yes, I got you. I meant more in a generic, collective sense. Most here are about personal choices and taking responsibility for those choices and less Big Gov't/Nanny State involvement. Post from last night. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2024-05-18 10:25 |
| #6 Hi, Anon1! Duplicate deleted. Probably a double click or stray gamma rays in the ether. These things happen from time to time — which is why Fred gifted us with the ability to delete. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2024-05-18 10:05 |
| #5 Ref #2 and #3: We are being sucked into their religious civil war. The saudis have great influence on US foreign policy. "Sucked into their Religions war." Ha! Replace "sucked" with (driven with zeal and great enthusiasm). |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2024-05-18 09:56 |
| #4 Worth repeating. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-05-18 09:24 |
| #3 Sorry for double post, not quite sure how that happened. Big hello to Trailing Wife |
| Posted by: Anon1 2024-05-18 06:55 |
| #2 This was spread worldwide by the Muslim Brotherhood, sunnis. Not iran But the Us doesn’t want to acknowledge this because Saudi backs the petro-dollar The Saudis (sunni) are fighting the shi’ites (iran) in yemen We are being sucked into their religious civil war. The saudis have great influence on US foreign policy. hamas are just muslim brotherhood which is why the leadership are in qatar |
| Posted by: Anon1 2024-05-18 06:54 |
| #1 Most Israelis don't really understand antisemitism. |
| Posted by: Grom the reflective 2024-05-18 05:40 |