CCOJB, the umbrella group of Jewish organisations in Belgium, has denounced an anti-Semitic incident in a public school in Brussels as it expressed a growing concern of the Jewish community about the repetition of such incidents.

A 12-year-boy recently decided to leave a secondary school in Uccle, one of the Brussels disctricts, after having been the victim of several anti-Semitic slurs, and to enroll in a Jewish school.

The teenager’s mother filed a complaint with police against the school for ‘’incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence against a group or community.’’

The school didn’t comment the incident. It just said that the school headmaster ‘’has never wanted to downplay it.’’

The CCOJB contacted Education Minister Marie-Martine Schyns and proposed several measures to combat this phenomenom, including specific educational programs for the schoolchidren.

For the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism (LBCA), where a file was opened, the young boy suffered a double penalty. '' He suffered a physical or a verbal aggression and had to leave the school while the torturor remains,’’ it says.