A group of three suspects insulted two men, who were wearing kippot, in Berlin’s affluent neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg before one of them used his belt to attack them, according to German media.
One of the victims recorded the incident, which took place on Monday evening.
The attacker is heard calling “Yahudi” during the event. “Yahudi” is an Arabic word for “Jew.”
He is then pulled away by one his companions, as one of the victims is shouting “Jewish or not, you need to deal with it,” in German.
The two Jewish men were aged 21 and 24. The 21-year-old apparently attempted to follow the attacker after the incident, but gave up after the one of the trio threw a glass bottle in his direction. Police said it was investigating the attack.
One of the victims was a German national while the other is an Israeli. The video was first published by Germany’s Jewish Forum for Democracy and against Anti-Semitism (JFDA).
JFDA representative Levi Salomon said it was “unbearable to see that a young Jewish man is attacked on a public street in the well-off Berlin quarter of Prenzlauer Berg because he is showing himself to be a Jew,” he said in a statement.
