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A German-Afghan homeless Sajed Aziz, 23 was convicted and sentenced to three and a half years in prison for stabbing a rabbi in the stomach last year. Aziz was convicted in Frankfurt state court of serious bodily injury in connection with the September attack on Orthodox Jewish rabbi Zalman Gurevitch during an altercation on a
Police investigating the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old German girl of Afghan origin are searching for her brother on suspicion he carried what media believe may have been an “honor killing”. Police said on Friday they were conducting an all-out search for the victim’s 23-year-old brother, whom they “strongly suspected” was responsible for the attack in
64-year old Ahmed Al Farroudi was stabbed to death on his way to the Rotterdam mosque, where he once served as imam. Shortly after, Moroccan Rotterdam resident Algemeen Dagblad was arrested for the crime. According to police, the victim and the attacker knew each other, and had quarreled before the fatal stabbing. According to bystanders,
Up to a thousand people demanding zero tolerance of anti-Semitism in Belgium gathered in Antwerp on Monday to protest about last week’s stabbing of a young Jewish boy by a gang of Muslim youths in the city. Members of Belgium’s Jewish community want the government to do more to deal with what they see as