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Gelsenkirchen (dpa / lnw) - According to the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of the Interior, the anti-Semitic riots of the past few days can be attributed to a mixed spectrum of perpetrators.
"These are not just Palestinian groups," said Interior Minister (CDU) on Friday in the "Morgenecho" of WDR 5. Although the cases have not yet been determined 100 percent, it is all about people from the Arab region, from Syria for example and in the case of a suspect from Gelsenkirchen to a German-Lebanese.
"There is a lot going on here."
The 26-year-old was identified as the first suspect after anti-Semitic chants near the synagogue in Gelsenkirchen on Thursday after a police chain stopped an anti-Semitic demonstration at the synagogue on Wednesday evening. The police said about 180 people who had gathered unannounced. In a video broadcast by the Central Council of Jews on Twitter, chants with anti-Semitic content can be heard. You can see people with the Palestinian, Turkish and Tunisian flags, among others.
On Wednesday night, Israeli flags were lit in front of synagogues in Münster and Bonn.
In Solingen, strangers burned an Israeli flag that was hoisted in front of the town hall on Thursday night.
Previously, the Gaza conflict between militant Palestinians and Israel had escalated again.
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Reul described it as "frightening, unacceptable, unbearable when anti-Semitic slogans are chanted on German soil".
Jewish life in Germany should be a matter of course.
The initiative against anti-Semitism Gelsenkirchen has called for a solidarity rally in front of the synagogue on Twitter this Friday.
NRW has invested a lot of money in recent years to make Jewish institutions safer - doors and windows, for example - and not just to put police officers in front of the door, said the interior minister.
The particularly important Jewish institutions would be guarded around the clock, others would be on duty.
The incidents also showed that citizens, especially young people, needed better education.
But this is not just an educational mandate for the schools, which already have a lot of tasks to do.
"Sometimes I have the impression that not everyone has understood what the rule of law actually means, what chance it is."
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In response to the discussion about the former President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Hans-Georg Maaßen, against whom anti-Semitism allegations have been raised, Reul said that Maaßen denied this and that it would be clarified.
It is clear: "I don't want anyone in the CDU to express themselves anti-Semitically."
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