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  German Ambassador to Ukraine Christof Weil has said that anti-Semitism should be made a crime.

“You have to invest in education to fight anti-Semitism,” he said at the international conference on anti-Semitism in Kyiv on Tuesday.

“This is the best medicine for people, to overcome their complexes, which are the core of anti-Semitism,” the ambassador said.

According to him, anti-Semitism became illegal in society.

Weil also stressed that the both the judicial authorities and the police must have the powers to fight the criminal behavior of anti-Semitism. Moreover, it is necessary to settle a dialogue with all sections of the population to fight this phenomenon.