Berlin ‘Kippah attack’ man charged

“The friend of mine, when he gave us the kippah as a gift, he said it’s unsafe to go out with a kippah on the streets of Germany, and we had a discussion about it,” he told the Deutsche Welle German national broadcaster.

“I was saying that it is really safe. I wanted to prove it, but it ended like that.”

The video of the incident went viral, with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, condemning the attack. The assailant, who has lived in Germany since 2015, handed himself in to the police two days after the attack.

The following week, thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish people took part in rallies in Berlin and other German cities, all wearing kippot, to protest against antisemitism.