German police have opened an investigation into an anti-Semitic attack that took place on the sidelines of a neo-Nazi rally in the city of Chemnitz late last month, according to local media reports.
According to the Die Welt and Freie Press newspapers, around a dozen masked assailants clad in black threw bottles, rocks and a metal pipe at the kosher eatery while shouting at patrons to "get out of Germany, Jewish pigs." The incident took place on the sidelines of a far-Right rally in the eastern German city on Aug. 27.
The owner of the establishment, Uwe Dziuballa, sustained an injury to the shoulder during the attack. The eatery has been the target of attacks on several occasions since its opening in 2000.
A regional interior ministry spokesman said the incident was most likely "politically motivated, with an anti-Semitic background."
Germany has seen countless far-Right demonstrations after news leaked that a German man had reportedly been stabbed to death by asylum-seekers from Iraq and Syria late last month.
Meanwhile, in Paris, vandals carved swastikas into 14 panels bearing the image of the late French Jewish Holocaust survivor and feminist icon Simone Veil at the Pantheon building, Friday.
The panels had been installed on the building's facade as part of an exhibit in Veil's honor that is set to run until Sept. 17. Veil was the fifth woman to be interred at the Pantheon mausoleum, where great authors, scientists, heroes and political figures rest.
Paris police have opened an investigation into the incident.
