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Poland's chief rabbi attacked in central Warsaw
KRAKOW: Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, was punched and sprayed with what appeared to be pepper spray by an unidentified man in downtown Warsaw, but escaped without injuries from what police said may have been an anti-Semitic attack. Schudrich said he was heading to a Sabbath lunch Saturday near Warsaw's main synagogue with a group of people when a young man yelled out Poland for Poles! That's a well-known pre-World War II slogan which basically means 'Jews, get out of Poland,' and I didn't like hearing it, so I approached the gentleman to ask him why he said such things and his reaction was to punch me in the chest, Schudrich told reporters. I was going to hit him back, but before I had a chance to hit him he sprayed me with some kind of spray %u2013 maybe pepper spray. Schudrich said his eyes still burned from the spray but that he was otherwise uninjured.Posted by: Fred 2006-05-29 |
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