VIENNA — A Jewish organization monitoring anti-Semitic incidents worldwide says it has written Austria’s interior ministry to complain that police ignored a rabbi’s plea for help while being harassed on the street.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s letter follows a police complaint filed last week by a rabbi who said he was sworn at for being a Jew by a soccer fan who then raised his arm in the Hitler salute.
The incident occurred ahead of a football match between Austria’s SK Rapid and Greece’s PAOK Saloniki.
The complaint says that instead of detaining the man, one of the officers smiled and said, ‘‘Come on, it’s a football game!’’
The Jewish organization’s letter says that through his actions, the police officer turned into an ‘‘accomplice to the perpetrator.’’
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