Tag: synagogue
Synagogue attacker was on bail after rape arrest, police say
Jihad Al-Shamie was arrested on suspicion of rape and on police bail at the time he launched a deadly knife and car attack on a Manchester synagogue, police have said. Adrian Daulby and Melvin Cravitz were killed in the attack on Thursday, while three people remain in hospital. On Friday, families of the dead men…
I saw evil as attacker tried to barge into synagogue, rabbi tells BBC
A rabbi has told of the moment a man tried to barge into his Manchester synagogue during a deadly attack, telling the BBC “I saw evil, I saw hate”. Rabbi Daniel Walker said he and others held the doors of Heaton Park synagogue as Jihad Al-Shamie was “body-charging the doors, throwing heavy plant pots, doing…
UK police release names of the 2 victims of the Manchester synagogue attack
By The Associated Press MANCHESTER, England — Police on Friday identified the two men who were killed in a car and knife attack on a synagogue in northwest England on the holiest day of the Jewish year, as Britain’s chief rabbi said an “unrelenting wave” of antisemitism lay behind the crime. Greater Manchester Police said…
Police name Manchester attacker who killed two at synagogue
A man who carried out an attack at a synagogue in Manchester on Thursday which left two Jewish people dead and three others injured has been named by police as Jihad Al-Shamie. Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British man of Syrian descent, drove a car at people outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue before attacking bystanders…
Second Sydney synagogue vandalised with swastikas as NSW premier condemns ‘monstrous’ acts
Police investigating graffiti on Newtown synagogue a day after similar attack in Allawah A second Sydney synagogue has been vandalised with swastikas in as many days in an attack the Jewish community said was intended to erode social cohesion. The Newtown synagogue in Sydney’s inner west was the latest site targeted, with red swastikas spray…
Sydney synagogue vandalised with swastikas in attack in NSW premier’s electorate
Police launch investigation as Chris Minns condemns ‘monstrous, appalling’ incident in Allawah, Kogarah Nazi swastikas have been scrawled across a Sydney synagogue in another episode of antisemitism, horrifying the Jewish community. The attack on the Southern Sydney Synagogue, in Allawah in NSW premier Chris Minns’ electorate of Kogarah, was committed by “bastards … with hate…