A senior official of the European Commission in Brussels has been the victim of an anti-Semitic attack by another Commission staffer in the EU quarter in July, Belgian daily Le Soir reporterd citing the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism.

A head of unit at the Commission, the victim, of Italian nationality and who is not Jewish, is said to have been verbally insulted by the man who shouted ‘’Dirty Jew’’, ‘’ Hitler should have finished the job’’ while glorifying Nazism.

The man, who is said to be a Commission civil servant and trade union leader, was bearing a metal plate marked ‘Mussolini’ when the woman stopped him and asked: ‘’ Mussolini was a dictactor, wasn’t he ?’.

In addition to persisting with anti-Semitic insults, the aggressor beat the woman violently at the face with the metal plate and strangled her.

'' He was talking about Nazis and Jews '', a friend of the victim who was present confirmed to the police. The woman has filed a complaint.

'' The comments were clearly racist,’’ he told daily Le Soir.

In shock, the woman suffered concussions and head trauma.

Brussels police confirmed that the opening of a criminal investigation.

The Belgian League against Anti-Semitism has asked the European Commission to 'take the measures appropriate to the gravity of the facts' and to fire the perpetrator for '' serious misconduct ''.