A teenager who was attacked by an anti-Semite is forced to withdraw his police report

In the Volgograd region, employees of the passport and visa department require a teenager who suffered from an attack by an anti-Semitic neighbor to withdraw a statement from the police.

The teenager was beaten on the Sulyaevsky farm of the Kumylzhensky district of the Volgograd region at the end of March 2007 and spent 10 days in the surgery department of the Kumylzhensky district hospital.

The boy turned to the police with a statement about his inclusion in the victim protection program. The boy is going to go to Israel under the "Academic SELA" program. After being discharged from the hospital, he turned to the local passport and visa service with an application for a passport, where he was "quite clearly hinted that if he did not take the application from the police, then he would have problems obtaining a passport" .

The senior assistant to the regional prosecutor Yuri Panchishkin, the office of the Ombudsman for Human Rights Mikhail Tarantsov, was informed. The Jewish Community Center of Volgograd took up the issue of selecting a rented room in Volgograd for the injured boy.

According to the teenager, he was invited to the village council of the farm and asked to be transferred to the Volgograd community center so that they "do not raise a wave ..." .

Sources

• Fishman E. A Jewish boy was asked to withdraw a statement from the police // AEN. 2007. May 6. *