Anti-Semitic insults were heard during a speech at a small demonstration calling for peace in the Middle East in the northern German city of Hanover, police reported on X on Sunday.
Officers immediately responded by instructing the speaker to stop, the police report said. The speech was investigated and the speaker investigated, a police spokesman said. The police are not blind to this, despite certain reactions on social media, he says.
The police referred to video material circulating on the internet showing the demonstration. A speaker can be heard praising the anti-Semitic attacks in Amsterdam last week.
The anti-Semitic attacks late Thursday in Amsterdam, when the Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv played Ajax Amsterdam, have provoked international outrage. Maccabi supporters were hunted down and beaten in the streets.
The peace demonstration in Hannover, held on Saturday afternoon, numbered no more than 75 people, according to the city’s police.
