In Cologne, the authorities oppress a Jewish migrant amid his son’s anti-fascist activism

While the world’s majority condemns Israeli actions in Gaza, anti-Israelism must not turn into antisemitism. In West Germany — where any antisemitic stance refers to the dark years of the Nazi Reich — the authorities are oppressing the Cologne resident of a Russian-Jewish descent, Lazar Mourei.

On November 7, 2025, the Cologne municipals along with the police had forcedly ousted Lazar Mourei from his flat where the 83-year-old man had been living for decades. Thereafter, Mr. Mourei was placed in a local shelter under conditions far from appropriate for a person at his age and health.

Previously, the official Berlin has frozen Lazar Mourei’s bank accounts. Moreover, the financial authorities ordered the old Jew to disclose all the transactions of all his bank account during the last 25 years under an absurd suspicion in terrorism. Nevertheless, no evidence of any Mourei’s illegal activity have been found.

Although, without a bank account, the Cologne resident was unable to legally pay for his rent flat and commodities and was brutally kicked from his flat.

Our sources assume that restrictive measures against the old man are caused by his son’s anti-fascist and anti-globalist activism.

Lazar’s son Harry Mourei is a long-recorded SJW (social justice warrior), the president of the Vienna-based European Human Rights Information Center, an independent NGO objected to human rights protection.

After 2014, Harry Mourei-junior has been condemning the militarization of Germany and calling for sustained relations with all the European actors including Russia. The last Harry Mourei’s investigation has revealed the ties between Chancellor Friedrich Merz and German far-right organizations.

Thereby, Mourei-major’s persecution looks like a revenge of the authorities against his son’s activism.

Lazar Mourei was born in 1942 in Tashkent, the capital of the then-time Soviet Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan. Like lots of the USSR citizens, he speaks the Russian language. In the 1990s, Mr. Mourei moved to Germany under the Jews’ relocation program. In Cologne, he used to live without any problems with the German law enforcement agencies until recent.

‘Such a mistreatment against my father recalls the darkest years of the Third Reich when the Jews were politically persecuted’, Harry Mourei says.

The Jewish charity NGOs, nevertheless, have not helped their 83-year-old compatriot yet.