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Berlin clan boss Arafat Abou-Chaker, nationally known for his years-long legal dispute with his former protégé Bushido, has a new problem: the State Security Service of the State of Berlin is now investigating the allegations against the 47-year-old. This is evident from a message from the Berlin police on Platform X.

Arafat Abou-Chaker, who has been increasingly present on the Tiktok platform since the outbreak of the war in Israel and Gaza, published a live conversation there with the Islamist Pierre Vogel.

In it he compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler: “This Zionist regime is comparable to Adolf Hitler. For me, such an Adolf Hitler is better than a Netanyahu – at least he killed her immediately.”

And further: “He (probably referring to Netanyahu, editor’s note) makes us suffer and kills us. He wants to exterminate an entire people.” In a compilation of the conversation that the Central Council of Jews in Germany published on X, Abou-Chaker later said: “I am not a supporter of Adolf Hitler, for me he is a mass murderer. I say only that it is worse for me, because it makes them suffer more slowly.” The Central Council of Jews said on X that the statements amounted to incitement to hatred.

Hostilities against Israel on Tiktok

Since the conflict in the Middle East intensified in early October, anti-Semitic statements and calls for violence against Jews have repeatedly appeared on the Tiktok platform.

Clan boss Abou-Chaker also regularly participates in the millions of times viewed nightly discussions between various rappers, influencers and Berlin scene stars. He also meets there again and again with German supporters of the anti-Israeli Salafists, who then spread Hamas propaganda during their discussions.

The platform operators do not moderate the live conversations; incidentally uploaded snippets of the conversations are then deleted from Tiktok.

According to the “BZ”, the Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution speaks of a “Tiktok-ization” of Salafism in this context. The videos would attract many young people who want to see their idols. From there they would quickly be directed to more explicitly Salafist ideas on other platforms.

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