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Wiesenthal Centre to Swedish Home Affairs Minister: "Police Must Treat Stabbing of Jewish Woman as Antisemitic Hate Crime."

"Swedish Middle East Policy encourages Jihadi-style intent."

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In a letter to Swedish Minister for Home Affairs, Mikael Damberg, Simon Wiesenthal Centre Director for International Relations, Dr. ShimonSamuels expressed horror at “yesterday’s stabbing of a 60 year old Jewish woman, in Helsingborg, active in the local Jewish community.”

The letter noted that, “she is critically injured and reports are that her assailant is a Muslim known to your authorities.”

Samuels remarked that, “apparently the police are treating the case as a common attempted murder. This evades the aggravated penalty if acknowledged as ahate-crime, in this case antisemitism,”... adding, “Even more damning, her pleas for help were reportedly ignored by bystanders.”

Samuels recalled that, "In 2010, our Centre issued a “travel advisory” on Malmo for police inaction in the face of attacks on the Jewish and Romacommunities."

The Centre pointed to the Minister’s special responsability for 'Police Authorities and Counter-Terrorism'...."This behooves you to take action for a speedy arrestand arraignment for antisemitic violence, as a warning to others inculcated to attack Jews and their institutions,”...He also stressed that, “Indeed, Swedish Middle East policy may be considereda contributory factor in encouraging such Jihadi-style intent.”

“Mr. Minister, we count on you to discourage us from further ‘travel advisories’”... “We stand in solidarity with the Jewish community of Helsingborg and pray forthe victim’s full recovery,” concluded Samuels.

For further information, contact Shimon Samuels at +33 147 237 637, join the Center on Facebook, www.facebook.com/simonwiesenthalcenter, or follow @simonwiesenthal for news updates sentdirect to your Twitter feed.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is one of the largest international Jewish human rights organizations with over 400,000 member families in the UnitedStates. It is an NGO at international agencies including the United Nations, UNESCO, the OSCE, the OAS, the Council of Europe and the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino).


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