By IRNA,
Berlin : Germany’s capital Berlin became once again scene of a vicious racist attack when an Egyptian man was beaten with a baseball bat by an unknown assailant, daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported Monday.
The 41-year-old unidentified victim was slightly injured in the attack which took place in Berlin’s Neukoelln district Sunday morning.
The attacker hurled racial insults at the victim and threatened him with a knife, according to the report.
The Egyptian man managed to escape from the scene of the attack.
The latest anti-foreigner assault comes nine months after a court in the eastern German city of Dresden sentenced a 28-year old German neo-Nazi man of Russian origin to life in jail without a chance of parole for the gruesome hijab killing of Egyptian national Marwa al-Sherbini.
Alex Wiens was charged with murder, attempted murder and inflicting dangerous bodily harm for the July 1, 2009 slaying of 31-year-old Marwa al-Sherbini.
The pregnant victim was killed while testifying against Wiens in court.
Wiens had smuggled an 18-centimeter kitchen knife into the courtroom and stabbed al-Sherbini repeatedly in front of her husband and their three-year-old son.
Her husband, Elwy Ali Okaz, was also stabbed when he tried to intervene, and was critically wounded when accidentally shot in the leg by a security guard who mistook him for the attacker.
The hate crime sent shock waves across the Islamic world and Germany’s 4.3 million-strong Muslim community.