Anti-Semitic insults were heard during a speech made at a small demonstration calling for peace in the Middle East held in the northern German city of Hanover, police reported on X on Sunday.
Officers responded immediately by instructing the speaker to desist, the police report said. The speech was being looked into and the speaker investigated, a police spokesman said. The police are not blind to this, despite certain comments on social media, he said.
Police referred to video material circulating on the internet showing the demonstration. A speaker can be heard praising anti-Semitic attacks in Amsterdam this past week.
The anti-Semitic attacks in Amsterdam late on Thursday, when Israeli football team Maccabi Tel Aviv played Ajax Amsterdam, have provoked international outrage. Maccabi supporters were hunted down and beaten up on the street.
The Hanover peace demonstration, which was held on Saturday afternoon, numbered no more than 75 people, according to the city’s police.
