In Germany, the number of racially motivated attacks rose by more than 20 percent in 2013 compared to the previous year, Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière said in Berlin on Wednesday.
Mehdi Nemmouche, the suspected islamist terrorist in the killing of four people at the Jewish museum in Brussels on May 24, said he would not oppose extradition to Belgium if this country pledged not to hand him on to another country.
France’s Jewish community and anti-racism groups reacted with outrage on Sunday to a new anti-Semitic pun by Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of extreme-right National Front party.
29-year-old Frenchman Mehdi Nemmouche, suspected of shooting dead four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum on May 24, will fight extradition from France to Belgium and denies being the author of the attack, his lawyer said.
A Paris court on Tuesday agreed to prolong by 24 hours the detention of Mehdi Nemmouche, the prime suspect in the Jewish Museum attack in Brussels in which four people were killed on May 24.
The head of the Jewish community in Belgium has called on the Belgian government to share the Jewish community’s financial burden of securing Jewish sites in the country, in the wake of the May 24 attack against the Brussels Jewish Museum in which four people were killed.
''There were so many things that I wanted to show you,'' said Ayelet Riva, one of the two teenage daughters of Emmanuel and Miriam Riva, the Israeli couple killed last Saturday in the attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, during the funeral of her parents Tuesday at the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv.
