Stabber Of Jewish Father And Son In Amsterdam Says He Forgot Why He Assaulted Them

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    AMSTERDAM  — A Dutch man charged with the attempted manslaughter of a Jewish father and son said he forgot why he stabbed them.

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    During the first hearing in the case, the victims asked the judge to consider a religious or racist motive, which currently is not included in the incitement.

    Taha Ewis Bakri Abdel Ghani did not deny the assaults in March on Martin Colmans and his son Sharon, vendors in the Albert Cuyp Market.

    The accused worked in a shop on the market and had had several disputes in the past with the Colmans and others, who complained to authorities about violence on his part.

    At Thursday’s hearing, a lawyer for Ewis Bakri Abdel Ghani presented psychiatric evaluations to the Amsterdam criminal tribunal declaring him mentally unfit to stand trial for his actions, according to a report by the AT5 television station.

    Along with the manslaughter charges for the stabbing of Colmans and his son Sharon, Ewis Bakri Abdel Ghani is charged with assault against Colmans’ wife.

    “I don’t know what happened. It’s not a period of my life I want to remember,” Ewis Bakri Abdel Ghani said at the hearing.

    Ewis Bakri Abdel Ghani had become more devout in his Muslim faith in the months leading up to the assault, during which he flew frequently to Egypt, the Colmanses said. He began praying outside his shop, reading the Quran and leering at them, they said.

    Esther Voet, editor in chief of the NIW Jewish weekly, who attended the hearing, wrote that the defendant wouldn’t answer when asked whether the attack was anti-Semitic, replying only that his “brother-in-law is a judge.”(JTA)


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    IsraelReader
    IsraelReader
    5 years ago

    Selective amnesia…

    lazy-boy
    lazy-boy
    5 years ago

    typical arab/muslim brain….

    Nachum
    Nachum
    5 years ago

    The amnesia defense is a bunch of garbage; to this date, Sirhan Sirhan still claims that he has no memory of shooting and killing Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

    Steven Wright
    Steven Wright
    5 years ago

    Lock him up and forget about him