Gil Ofarim: His Instagram account has been deactivated

Anyone who wants to call up the official Instagram profile of musician Gil Ofarim (39) is currently (March 31) . It says, “Sorry, this page is unavailable. Either the link you clicked doesn’t work, or the page has been removed.” It is not clear whether the star himself took this step and whether the account was only temporarily or permanently deleted.

The deactivation of the account goes with a new development in the alleged anti-Semitism case, which Ofarim reported in October 2021. At the time, the star claimed in a widely acclaimed video that an employee of the Westin Hotel in Leipzig had treated and insulted him in an anti-Semitic manner.

But the public prosecutor’s office in Leipzig has not only stopped the investigation against the hotel employee because of alleged anti-Semitic statements and false suspicions. In addition, she has now filed charges against Ofarim – because of false suspicion and defamation.

That’s the basis of the charge

The justification for this decision is that after a detailed analysis of all the evidence and witness statements, it is believed that “the events as described by Gil Ofarim in his published video did not actually happen”.

The public prosecutor’s office accuses Gil Ofarim, among other things, of not only repeating his statements about the alleged course of events on the evening of October 4th “in knowledge of their untruth and now expressly reporting them during the police interrogation, but also to the hotel employee because of his criminal complaint against him for defamation now against his better knowledge because of the accusation of false suspicion and thus made himself liable to prosecution for false suspicion”.