Translated from German:
A 32-year-old man has been fined €450 for denying a Jewish student access to a lecture hall at the Free University of Berlin (FU) in the context of a pro-Palestinian occupation. The Tiergarten District Court found the defendant guilty of coercion. Using his body, he had pushed the Jewish student Lahav Shapira away during the incident in December 2023. There was no justification for this. “As a student at the university, he had to be granted access,” explained presiding judge Leonie Richter.