Dispatches: When Will Europe Finally get Serious About Hate Crimes? | Human Rights Watch

As a parent it was hard to listen to. Mette Bentow described how a joyous occasion for her 12-year-old daughter turned into a nightmare, when the Copenhagen synagogue where she was celebrating her Bat Mitzvah was attacked by a gunman. Mette’s daughter and her siblings survived the attack in February, in which a volunteer guard died, but they are deeply traumatized, their mother said, scared to openly express their Jewish identity in the country of their birth.