Berlin clan boss
In Tiktok clip: Arafat Abou-Chaker compares Netanyahu to Hitler
Arafat Abou-Chaker in court in Berlin
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In a Tiktok clip, Arafat Abou-Chaker can be seen with the Salafist preacher Pierre Vogel. Abou-Chaker compares Adolf Hitler with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Berlin State Security Service is investigating allegations of sedition against the head of a well-known Arab clan in connection with the Hamas attack on Israel: Arafat Abou-Chaker.
The background is a video clip on Tiktok in which Abou-Chaker can be seen with the Salafist preacher Pierre Vogel. The Central Council of Jews linked the video on the X platform, formerly Twitter, and called on the Berlin police to investigate sedition. Young people are being “ideologically poisoned” on Tiktok every day, the Central Council explained.
Crude comparison in Tiktok video clip
Abou-Chaker compares Adolf Hitler with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. State security at the State Criminal Police Office was involved, said a police spokeswoman. She did not provide any further information. The police had previously responded to the Central Council’s post on X: “Of course we forwarded the video to our state security department for review.” The “Tagesspiegel” first reported.
Abou-Chaker said in the recording posted by the Central Council: “I say quite honestly: for me, Adolf Hitler is better than Netanyahu.” At the same time, the 47-year-old said: “I am not a supporter of Adolf Hitler.” For him, he was a “mass murderer, a dictator.” When asked by the German Press Agency, Abou-Chaker initially did not comment further on the incident.
The Abou-Chakers originally come from Lebanon and immigrated to Germany in the 1980s. Arafat Abou-Chaker in particular became known through his friendship and later enmity with the rapper Bushido. Investigators have filed more than 30 cases against the clan leader in recent years.
Sources: “Tagesspiegel”DPA