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EU Official Assaults 'Dirty Jewess' at Café

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JERUSALEM, Israel -- It's the kind of story you won't hear very often. Most news agencies ignore such "trivia," especially this kind.

But the Israeli daily Ha'aretz followed up on the story, posting details of the assault that other media barely picked up.

The incident took place recently at an Italian café in Brussels near European Union headquarters.

An Italian woman, age 50, an E.U. department head, saw a man with a metal plaque bearing the name "Mussolini" loudly proclaiming the praises of Italy's former fascist leader.

When she reminded him that Mussolini "was still a dictator," the man went ballistic. He called her a "dirty Jewess," cracked her skull with the plaque and grabbed her by the throat in an attempt to choke her.

Some people at the café came to her aid, pulling him away from her as he shouted, "All you Jews should have been killed" and "Hitler should have exterminated all Jews."

It turned out she wasn't Jewish. The next morning she went to the hospital where she was diagnosed with a concussion and internal hemorrhaging.

Meanwhile, some people at the café recognized the assailant, identifying him as Stefan Gersh, an E.U. official from Malta and president of Generation 2004, an E.U. labor union.

According to Ha'aretz, the woman, who asked that her name be withheld, consulted a psychologist to help her deal with the emotional trauma she suffered from the assault.

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