Arafat Abou-Chaker
State security examines statements from Berlin clan boss
Arafat Abou-Chaker in court in Berlin. photo
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In a video excerpt, Arafat Abou-Chaker can be seen with the Salafist preacher Pierre Vogel. Abou-Chaker compares Hitler to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The background is a video clip on Tiktok in which Arafat 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.
Abou-Chaker compares Hitler to 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, this is a “mass murderer, a dictator”. When asked by the German Press Agency, Abou-Chaker initially did not comment further on the incident.