ISRAEL: TEL AVIV MAN SQUIRTS BLACK PAINT ON BODY OF GERMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADER IGNATZ BUBIS DURING HIS BURIAL

Record ID: 399589

  • Title: ISRAEL: TEL AVIV MAN SQUIRTS BLACK PAINT ON BODY OF GERMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADER IGNATZ BUBIS DURING HIS BURIAL
  • Date: 15th August 1999
  • Summary: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (AUGUST 15, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. PAN GERMAN PRESIDENT JOHANNES RAU AND ISRAELI PRESIDENT EZER WEIZMAN AROUND GRAVE 0.13 2. VARIOUS JEWISH LEADER IGNATZ BUBIS' BODY PLACED IN GRAVE/ MOURNERS (3 SHOTS) 0.39 3. SLOW-MOTION OF BLACK PAINT BEING SQUIRTED INTO GRAVE (LOOKS LIKE SHADOW MOVING ACROSS GRAVE) 0.42 4. SCU/SV MOUNER
  • Embargoed: 30th August 1999 13:00
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  • Location: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL
  • Country: Israel
  • Reuters ID: LVA6RZRS5S3IP1RID9X3GYXIZ55A
  • Story Text: A Tel Aviv man has said he squirted black paint on the
    body of the leader of Germany's Jewish community who sought
    burial in Israel to escape desecration of his grave by neo-Nazis.

    An Israeli said on Monday (August 16) he had squirted
    black paint into the grave of the leader of Germany's Jewish
    community, Ignatz Bubis, during his burial in Israel.

    Bubis, who died last Friday in Frankfurt, was buried in
    Tel Aviv on Sunday in line with his wish to be laid to rest
    where his grave would be safe from desecration by neo-Nazis.

    Meir Mendelssohn, a Tel Aviv resident who described
    himself as an artist, said Bubis was a "bad man...who had
    taken advantage of his Jewishness".

    "I hope I made the first sign to show who he really
    was...They will ask why somebody like me, a sane person who
    never broke the law, would do something like this,"
    Mendelssohn told Reuters.

    Video footage of the funeral obtained by Reuters on Monday
    shows what appears to be a jet of black paint shooting into
    the grave as burial workers shovel in earth.

    The person squirting the paint is not seen.Mendelssohn,
    who has a long white beard, is visible in a separate shot of
    the funeral, which drew some 200 mourners including German
    President Johannes Rau and Israeli President Ezer Weizman.

    None of the mourners appeared to have noticed the
    paint-squirting incident.Police in Tel Aviv said an
    investigation would be opened only if evidence were discovered.


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