Berlin – A Frenchman visiting Berlin probably couldn’t have picked a more dangerous spot to pull a pretend pistol.
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Police say the heavily drunk tourist kneeled down in front of Germany’s biggest synagogue Thursday and pointed what appeared to be a gun at officers guarding the building.
Luckily for him, a quick-witted policewoman noticed that the weapon was a toy before her colleagues opened fire on the Frenchman.
Berlin police spokesman Dirk Stoewhase said the unnamed 25-year-old man could have ended the day in the morgue instead of a jail cell.
Stoewhase said the gun might easily have been mistaken for a real weapon because “it certainly didn’t just look like a water pistol.”
Jewish buildings in Germany are routinely guarded by armed police to prevent anti-Semitic attacks.
Too bad!
Well now we know those cops guarding the community are good at what they do.
What a loser, he’s lucky. If the cops would not have been drunk he would have died!
They should have shot him, at least it would have served people as a lesson!
The sad thing is that he could have done this in France and the police here wouldn’t have bothered. At least the German Police does their job right!
The whole story is troubling. Why is there a shul in Germany that has mixed seating? Isn’t that the trouble from the start? Also, isn’t it possible this guy was scoping out the synagogue and the police response to plan an attack, G-d forbid?!