PALESTINIAN MURDERED GERMAN FOR BEING ‘JEW’ WHO ‘DESTROYED MY COUNTRY’

A witness said the 31-year-old Palestinian man said that the real estate investor and 57-year-old victim Michael Riecher is a “Jew” who “annihilated my country.” 

A Palestinian man allegedly murdered a German real estate investor in November because he was a “Jew” who “destroyed his country,” according to shocking testimony during a Wednesday court appearance in the southern state of Baden-Württemberg. 

A Lebanese-born witness using the alias of Haitham Ahmad said the 31-year-old Palestinian man named Iyad B. said that 57-year-old victim Michael Riecher is a ” Jew” who “annihilated my country,” according to a report in the local newspaper Schwarzwälder Bote. 

Jürgen Lück, a reporter for Schwarzwälder Bote, who broke the story about the lethal antisemitic motive behind Riecher’s death, told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that “according to Riecher’s friend Riecher was definitively not Jewish. 

Lück has reported extensively on the trial. Ahmad said that the Palestinian’s hatred in connection with the apparent reference to Jews destroying his country is related to the motive for murder. 

It is unclear what Iyad means by “my country.” Ahmad presumably meant the West Bank because he and Ahmad knew each other from the West Bank and Jordan.

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