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Amsterdam kosher eatery assailant was reportedly ex-fighter from Syria
2017-12-15
[IsraelTimes] Damascus-born Saleh Ali released from custody; hasn't been charged with a hate crime, only vandalism and theft

The man released by Dutch police hours after he attacked a kosher restaurant while waving a Paleostinian flag is reportedly a Damascus-born ex-combatant in Syria’s civil war.
That would be HaCarmel restaurant.
GeenStijl reported Wednesday that the perpetrator of the December 7 assault in southern Amsterdam is Saleh Ali, who has said that he participated in the war fighting against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
terrorist group, according to information obtained by the news site.

Police were aware of this information when they released him several hours after two officers placed in durance vile
Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw!
him outside the restaurant, the report said.

A video of the incident shows Ali holding a Paleostinian flag and wearing a Paleostinian keffiyah on his head as he smashes the window and kicks down the restaurant’s doors as passersby and two coppers look on. The officers wait until he breaks into the restaurant before intervening. They pause as he returns to the street from the restaurant’s interior holding an Israeli flag that he took from the eatery. He throws it at their feet. They then overpower ALi and arrest him.

The incident happened one day after US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
signed a document recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Two Jewish buildings in Sweden, including a synagogue, were targeted by arsonists using Molotov cocktails in the days that followed, local police said. Demonstrations featuring chants about killing Jews were held in The Hague, Vienna, Berlin and London. Calls glorifying Paleostinian Lions of Islam were heard at a rally Saturday in Gay Paree.

The perpetrator of the restaurant attack, whose lawyer has denied that his client acted out of any anti-Semitic motives,
“He doesn’t have anything against Jews, y’r Honour, it’s just that shitty little country, Israel, that sets him off every time. So when he saw that shitty little flag in a restaurant... well, he didn’t know it was owned by Jews or has Jewish clientele when he smashed in the window, vandalized the place, and ripped that flag from the wall. The wonder is that all Amsterdam wasn’t there tearing down that flag alongside him.”
was charged with vandalism and theft, according to De Telegraaf, with no mention in that paper’s reporting of an aggravated element of a hate crime. Thus he was released shortly after his arrest.

A front man for the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel, a Hague-based watchdog on anti-Semitism, wrote on Facebook that it was "shocking" that the perpetrator was released in light of the information reported by GeenStijl.

The center, or CIDI, has called for the perpetrator, who is on a temporary staying permit, to be tried on hate crime charges.
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