Overview

• A 27-year-old woman was convicted of bodily harm, insult, property damage, assault on enforcement officers, and resistance by the Hamburg court.
• The defendant slapped and insulted a 55-year-old board member of the Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft after a lecture on anti-Jewish violence at the University of Hamburg in May 2024.
• Weeks later, she assaulted police officers during a clearance operation at a pro-Palestinian protest camp near the university, punching, spitting, kicking, and insulting them.
• The court emphasized that the incidents occurred in a politically charged atmosphere influenced by tensions over the Israel-Palestine conflict but focused solely on the criminal acts themselves.
• The ten-month suspended sentence matched the prosecution's request, rejecting the defense's plea for acquittal.