CCOJB, the umbrella group of Jewish organizations in Belgium, expressed “shock” after an anti-Semitic aggression against a 13-year-old girl last Friday in Brussels.
Following an altercation at a sport training centre with five classmates from Moroccan origin, Oceane Sluijzer was beaten by the girls who shouted: ‘Shut up, you dirty Jew, and return to your country’.
In shock, the young Jewish girl filed a complaint with the Brussels police. The attackers have been identified and will be questioned.
In a statement, the CCOJB asked the judicial authorities to make sure that the investigation would proceed quickly conducted without delay and said it might file a civil action in this matter.
The Jewish group requested from the Belgian French community Education Minister “to introduce appropriate educational programs in schools to prevent un justified tensions between communities.”
It voiced what it termed the “exasperation” of the Jewish community at the repetition of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist attacks.
As a “moral authority”, the central Jewish Consistory, the representative body of Jewish religious congregations in the country, also intervened with the authorities to prevent such acts.
Brussels Jewish parliamentarian Viviane Teitelbaum denounced the “silence” of political leaders and most of media after this attack.