Overview
- A 35‑year‑old man wearing a kippa and an IDF pullover was verbally abused and then physically attacked at the Rathausufer (Rheinufer) in Düsseldorf on 22 September.
- Multiple witnesses and surveillance video show two women first shouted israelfeindliche insults and two men then joined and lightly injured the victim.
- Police published surveillance images and followed public tips to identify an 18‑year‑old German‑Moroccan from Duisburg and a 21‑year‑old Duisburg resident who later turned himself in.
- Officers processed both suspects and released them after concluding there were currently no legal grounds to detain them; one of the suspects had prior police contacts.
- The Polizeilicher Staatsschutz has formed a special commission called EK Rathaus to examine motive and links to political or ideological bias and continues to ask the public for information.