In the case ( we reported ) there were several developments. And as of today (March 31, 2022) another change: the proceedings against the hotel employee were discontinued and charges were opened against Ofarim instead. about the Tagesschau in a posting on Facebook:

The Leipzig public prosecutor's office has discontinued the investigation against a hotel employee for alleged anti-Semitic statements and false suspicions and instead brought charges against Ofarim.

At the beginning of October 2021, Ofarim said into the camera in a video shared on Instagram that a hotel employee had asked him to take off his Star of David chain - only then would he let him check in.

The accused rejected this account, but the hotel initially released him from his duties. The incident, as described by Ofarim in his published video, “did not actually happen that way,” the public prosecutor said. Numerous witnesses were interviewed and video recordings from several surveillance cameras in the hotel area were examined. According to the information, there was obviously no chain with a star around the singer's neck on the recordings. According to the public prosecutor's office, there is sufficient suspicion that Ofarim "knew that his statements were untrue and with knowledge of the consequences for the hotel employee concerned “The resulting defamatory and derogatory consequences in public opinion” published the video.

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