'Keppeltje was experiment about the city of Berlin'

berlin - The boy who was molested in Berlin because he was wearing a yarmulke, says he is an Israeli boy from an Arab family, and that the yarmul was meant as an 'experiment'.

Adam got the kippet from a friend. He himself is not Jewish, he tells Deutsche Welle, but because his friend claimed that it was dangerous to use the yarmulke outside, he wanted to take the test.

'It was an experiment to wear the kippa, and to go out,' Adam said. Of the fifty people on the street, only one woman wanted to help, he says. However, the police were very helpful.

On a video you can see how the student is mistreated with a belt. Arab assailants run towards him as soon as they see the headgear. One of them took off his belt and slammed his bewildered opponent face-to-face and against the body.

'Things like this happen more often,' says Josef Schuster, the chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. 'Three years ago I warned against the arrival of Arab neighborhoods in big cities, with a keppeltje on. Now we see this incident in a trendy neighborhood. That is a new dimension. '

The former working class district of Prenzlauer Berg is now a well-to-do neighborhood without many Arabs and Turks, who previously live in other parts of the city.

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