Merkel attends Berlin synagogue vigil for shooting victims of Yom Kippur attack
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended an evening vigil at a historic synagogue in central Berlin on Wednesday to honor the victims of a deadly Yom Kippur attack in the east German city of Halle.
The vigil was called in solidarity with the Jewish community following the suspected anti-Semitic, far-right shooting at a synagogue that left two dead.
Merkel earlier condemned the attack, adding an expression of “solidarity for all Jews on the holy day of Yom Kippur.”
Njemačka kancelarka Angela Merker je, u srijedu, prisustvovala večernjoj službi (bdijenju) u centralnoj povijesnoj sinagogi u Berlinu kako bi odala počast žrtvama smrtonosnog napada, na Yom Kippur, u gradu Halle ( "Istočna" Njemačka). To je sazvano u znak solidarnosti sa Židovskom zajednicom nakon antisemitskog napada (od krajnje desnice) kod sinagoge koja je ostavila dvoje mrtvih.Merkel je već ranije osudila napad i izrazila osjećaj solidarnosti za sve židove na njihov sveti praznik Yom Kippur.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with members of the Jewish community at a vigil outside the New Synagogue in Berlin, October 9, 2019. (Anton Roland Laub/AFP)
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The Halle attack appears to be the latest in a wave of racially and religiously motivated crimes against Jews to rock Germany in recent years.
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency reported that the number of anti-Semitic acts of violence rose sharply last year alongside a further increase in those identified as far-right extremists.