While commemorating the night of the pogrom in Lahr in the Black Forest, a 17-year-old boy is said to have tried to burn an Israeli flag. The teenager was arrested as part of a manhunt, police said. Emergency services also arrested a 32-year-old suspect who they said insulted participants at the memorial event. A search is underway for a third person, but it is not yet known who is said to have damaged the other flag. No one was hurt.
As also announced by the police, around 15 people wearing Israeli flags gathered at Friedrich-Ebert-Park in the afternoon to commemorate and pray together. A group of youths, who according to previous information learned about the incident by chance, disrupted the meeting with loud shouts and curses. The 17-year-old teenager is said to have then stolen the flag.
On the night of the pogrom of November 9, 1938, synagogues were burned throughout Germany. Shops were looted and destroyed. Jews were persecuted, arbitrarily arrested, and killed.
Unknown people damaged a Jewish memorial plaque in Pasewalk
A similar thing also happened in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on November 9. for anti-Semitic incidents. Unknown people damaged a Jewish memorial plaque in Pasewalk. Some mail was sprayed onto the base, police said. The memorial plaque commemorates the former synagogue that was burned there on the night of the Nazi pogrom. The letters do not provide any concrete indication of precise political opinion, as a police spokesman said. Criminal police are investigating. The extent to which the crime is related to that date cannot be determined from the letters and is part of the investigation, he said.
