A neo-Nazi who attacked a chareidi Jew in Zurich, Switzerland, was sentenced to two years in prison. The incident took place on the main street of Widikon in the Jewish quarter of Zurich on July 4th.

According to the JTA report, the attacker was part of a group of about 20 men who saluted with the ‘Heil’ and yelled anti-Semitic slogans, when the chareidi man passed as he returned from shul on Shabbos morning.

Some of the group members spat at him and one of them pushed him and knocked him down before the police came and intervened. The victim is in his 40s. The attacker, whose name is not mentioned in the report, was also fined $1,000 and compelled to pay the victim $3,100.

The neo-Nazi has a history, as he already served a year in prison in 2013 pertaining to another assault case.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)