After the attack on the Jewish student Lahav Shapira in Berlin, a 24 -year -old man has been sentenced to three years in prison. The District Court of Tiergarten owed the then fellow students of the victim of the dangerous bodily harm and assumed an anti -Semitic motive. Prosecutor Tim Kaufmann had asked for a prison sentence of two years and four months. The act was an “anti -Semitic excess”, as prosecutor Tim Kaufmann said in his plea. “Lahav Shapira was attacked because he is a Jew and campaigned against anti -Semitism,” said the prosecutor. The Jewish student Lahav Shapira comes with his lawyer Sebastian Scharmer on the process in Berlin Moabit. However, he rejected the allegation of anti -Semitism. “I was not concerned with politics, but the cooperation among fellow students,” said the former Fu teaching student, born in Berlin, whose parents come from Lebanon. “I’m sorry to have inflicted pain.” His defense lawyer advocated a probation penalty of one year and nine months as well as a money edition because of intentional bodily harm and the victim happened to meet on February 2, 2024 at a bar in Berlin. When the Jewish student left the restaurant, the perpetrator followed him. He had accused Shapira in a WhatsApp group of FU students and that he had torn off posters at the FU, it was said in his confession. Then there was a dispute and he struck. He underestimated his martial arts experience, according to the 24-year-old. The Jewish student was put down by his former fellow student with his fist. When he was bleeding on the ground, a kick in the face followed with full force. The 32-year-old suffered a complex medium-sized fracture and brain hemorrhage. He had to be operated on several times.
