Sunday, July 04, 2004

Remind me not to waer my Jewish bling-bling when I'm in Antwerp.

New attacks on Antwerp Jews

BRUSSELS - Two more Jewish men have been attacked in the Belgian city of Antwerp, it has been confirmed.

The men were attacked in seperate incidents on Thursday evening, police have confirmed.

The first attack occurred at around 8 pm when police in the Brialmontlei district found a young Jewish man bleeding in the street.

The victim was taken to the Sint-Vincentius hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries.

His attacker, who is still on the run, was described as a man of Eastern European origin and the circumstances of the incident are unknown.

The second assault took place as a Jewish man, aged around forty, cycled in the streets of Berchem.

A group of around fifteen individuals began to attack the man with stones and bottles but failed to injure him.

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