The victim recounted the episode from her home in Palermo; the assailant was not detained despite the formal complaint
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Influencer Michelle Iman Schmukler reported a serious antisemitic attack at her home in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo, where a man tried to hit her and her eight-month-old baby by throwing an iron bar at them while insulting them because of their Jewish identity.
“A man tried to hit my baby and me, he tried to kill us. He was shouting "Jew, Jew, Jew, now you have a Jewish child, how disgusting." He threw an iron bar at my baby” Michelle recounted in a video she posted on social media.
The victim explained that the striker lives in the same building and that the verbal attacks had been happening for days, but this time he “crossed the line”. “He insulted us all the time, but today he aimed an iron bar at my son's head. If I had moved for a second, he would have killed him” she said with anguish.
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Her husband, Idán, witnessed the attack and confronted the aggressor, who, far from denying it, admitted what he had done and sped off. “I asked him if he had thrown the iron bar, and he said yes, that he was sorry he didn't have good aim” he recounted.
Despite the seriousness of the incident, the striker was not detained. Schmukler and her husband filed a report at the corresponding police station, but they claim that the response from the justice system was minimal. “They sent us to get a panic button. A person throws an iron bar aiming at the head of an eight-month-old baby and nobody detains him, absolutely nothing” Idán denounced indignantly.
After the case gained attention, the Minister of Security of the Nation, Patricia Bullrich, contacted the mother to offer assistance. “Thanks to the minister for reaching out to me. Also thanks to DAIA and the City Police, who made themselves available” the victim posted on her social media.
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The episode caused enormous public outrage and reignited the debate about impunity in the face of hate crimes. In recent months, Buenos Aires has recorded several attacks of this kind, while "human rights" organizations and left-wing groups remain silent about the assaults on the Jewish community.
The striker remains free in the same building. The Schmukler family demands protection and a firm response to an act that, in other countries, would undoubtedly be considered attempted murder motivated by antisemitism.
