An Israeli couple was violently attacked in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz on Saturday after they were heard speaking Hebrew. The attack was reported to the Israeli embassy.
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The Arabic speaking assailant approached the couple, both in their 20s who were sitting in a fast-food restaurant and began shouting abuses at them. When they asked him to stop, he threw a bottle of bear at the young woman and then attacked her with a chair.
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She was able to push the bottle hurled at her away with her hand and when her partner rose up to defend her he was punched by the attacker who then fled the scene with another man, who was also speaking in Arabic.
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Although both Israelis were hurt, they turned down medical attention and lodged a complaint with the Berlin police, which began an investigation of an attack that caused dangerous bodily harm.