Berlin: A 30-year-old man conducted Wednesday trial for anti-Semitic attacks at a Jewish restaurant three years ago in the city of East Germany Chemnitz where the owner was injured and the restaurant was broken.
The prosecutor accused the man, whose name was not given in line with the rules of German privacy, motivated by distant ideology.
He has been charged on allegations of serious attacks that are compounded, violations of peace and property damage.
The man, who did the trial at the District Court in Chemnitz, was allegedly part of a group that attacked the restaurant on the night of August 27, 2018.
The group threw a round stone to the building that hit and injured Schalom Jewish restaurants, the German news agency DPA reported.
The group also shouted the anti-Semitic hole during the attack.
Anti-Semitic attacks are part of a few far days, anti-migrant riots following a fatal stabbing of a German man by a Syrian asylia seeker at Chemnitz.
Hundreds of distant rioters came to Chemnitz from all over Germany protested and pursued strangers through the city.
At the opening of the trial, the defendant refused to speak, but the owner of a Jewish restaurant, Uwe Dziuballa, said he was surprised at the attack when he stepped in front of his restaurant and saw a group of around 10 people, all in dark clothes, who looked at him with hateful eyes, DPA report.
Next there is a hard bangs, he tells.
“This is really surprising to me,” Dziuballa told the court, adding that her restaurant had been attacked before, but there was never a massive attack intended to her personally.
Men face trials for Jewish restaurant attacks in Germany
