Community leaders in a southern Russian city are pressing local authorities to protect a Jewish teen following an anti-Semitic attack. The AEN news agency reported that the 16-year-old boy was severely beaten by his neighbor in the village of Sulyaevsky. The youth, whose name has been withheld, was hospitalized with head injuries and a broken nose. Citing the possibility of further attacks, the youth and his family will not return to their village. Community activists in Volgograd have appealed to the regional prosecutor’s office and the region’s human rights ombudsman in an attempt to expedite the investigation.
The incident follows two significant anti-Semitic attacks last year in this southern region. In September, vandals attacked the Or Avner Jewish School in Volgograd, painting anti-Semitic slogans and severely wounding a guard from the interior ministry. The following day, 30 gravestones in the local Jewish cemetery were knocked over.
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