Netherlands: Victim of kosher restaurant attack says system did not look into antisemitic motives

Via Facebook:

Five months ago I got stabbed in my back by an unknown man at a kosher restaurant in Amsterdam. On Friday it was decided that the man will serve 1 year in a mental hospital, of his choice, and I will get 1500 EUR in compenstations.

It strikes me that the police, prosecutor and judges did not see the severity of the attack. I could have died, if the knife would have hit me only slightly differently. It was also shocking that the system had no interest in looking into the anti-semitic suspicion of the attack. It is still unclarified why the attacker entered two kosher restaurants on the same evening.

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