Overview

• On Sunday, a message on the Kleinmachnow shop’s Facebook page declared Jews and Israelis unwelcome before the post was swiftly deleted.
• Shop owner Mehmet Uyar, who operates locations in Kleinmachnow and Calau with his father, says the Facebook account was compromised and that he removed the entry himself on the afternoon it appeared.
• Brandenburg police have launched an incitement to hatred investigation under suspicion of Volksverhetzung.
• Officials plan to conduct a Gefährderansprache—a formal warning interview—with the person police believe authored and posted the content.
• The case has intensified scrutiny of antisemitism in the region, following a racist and antisemitic job advertisement in Saxony in April.