BERLIN (JTA) — Police removed two Israeli flags from the window of an apartment building along the route of an anti-Israel protest in a German town.
The incident in the city of Duisburg occurred toward the end of the Jan. 10 rally.
Demonstrators, mostly of Turkish background, were on their way home when they apparently spotted the two flags hanging in the fourth-floor window. Until then the two-hour demonstration had proceeded "without incident," the brief police report read.
Demonstrators stopped and "threw snowballs and other objects until the police removed the flags."
The young couple living in the apartment reported the incident in a blog entry. According to Sebastian M., he and his girlfriend hung two Israeli flags out their window, which was along the route where some 10,000 anti-Israel demonstrators were to pass.
"During the demonstration which went through our street, the police broke into our flat and removed the flag of Israel," Sebastian M. wrote, adding that the police said they were concerned that demonstrators would break into the building.
"We both were standing on the other side of the street and were shocked by seeing a police officer standing in our bedroom and opening the window to get the flag," he added.
Sebastian M. also posted a video of the incident on YouTube.
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