The case caused an outrage not only in Hamburg: a young man attacked a 60-year-old man who was peacefully demonstrating against anti-Semitism at the vigil with unbelievable brutality.
The Hamburg State Criminal Police Office is now investigating Aram A. (16) from Berlin for assault, because he is suspected of having brutally knocked down the Jewish man at an Israel vigil in the Hanseatic city. Victim Michael T. was hospitalised for six days after the attack with a fractured cheekbone and nasal bone.
The suspect fled and hid from the police for ten days. Until Tuesday. Investigators searched the flat of the youth and his family in the Berlin district of Wedding.
Now the tabloid BILD found out: The 16-year-old is under contract with an acting agency and is starring in a film called “Evolution”, which is being shown at the Cannes Film Festival in France and is about a family of Holocaust survivors!
Aram A. plays “Ali”, who bullies the Jewish pupil “Jonas” in a Berlin school and also gets rough with his classmate. The film’s scenes also repeatedly deal with anti-Semitism.
BILD asked the film agency, wanted to know how their boss sees the plot of the film, in which “Ali” attacks a Jewish boy, against the background of current events.
She does not want to speak openly. In conversation, however, she says that she knows Aram A. as a very charming young man and that he has great acting talent.
In films he is the perfect villain. She could not imagine that he had such a potential for aggression. She has known him since the beginning of January, when someone from a youth centre in Berlin recommended the young man to her.