A rabbi was stabbed Saturday morning in the Jewish quarter of Antwerp, Belgium.
The 31-year-old man walked under the railway bridge to Pelikaanstraat, in the middle of the Jewish quarter, when he was stabbed in his throat by a passerby.
The victim was seriously injured but is not in danger, a well informed source said.
The perpetrator managed to escape. Police arrested a suspect but it later turned out to have nothing to do with the stabbing.
According to Sven Lommaert, spokesperson of the Antwerp police, the motivation of this attack is still ''unclear.'' He told Flemish media that the suspect might be ''a 20-year-old man of East European origin.'' Police are questioning witnesses.
Around 18,000 Jews live in Antwerp.
In May, four people, including an Israeli couple, were killed at the Brussels Jewish Museum when an Islamic extremist burst into the site and opened fire.
Frenchman of Algerian origin Mehdi Nemmouche, who had spent more than a year fighting with Islamic terrorists in Syria, is awaiting trial in, Belgium for the attack on charges of “murder in a terrorist context.”