HELSINKI (AP) — Three people have been arrested for allegedly throwing firebombs at a synagogue in the Swedish city of Göteborg. Jewish groups condemned the attacks as “unconscionable” and demanded that authorities take action.
No one was injured in the attack late Saturday during a youth event at the synagogue and the adjacent Jewish center in
The attack took place after some 200 people rallied late Friday in the southern city of
Witness Allan Stutzinsky told the TT news agency he saw a dozen masked youths who threw what appeared to be firebombs into the garden surrounding the synagogue in Göteborg, but they failed to damage the building.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven and other top politicians condemned the incidents and authorities increased security around the synagogue and at Jewish centers in
“I’m terribly upset over the attack on a synagogue in Göteborg yesterday and calls for violence against Jews at a demonstration in
He urged “all democratic forces” in
On Saturday, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom tweeted that those who called for Jews to be killed did something “totally unacceptable.”
The European Jewish Congress said Sunday it was “unconscionable that Jews are under attack on the streets of
In Nordic neighbor
The American Jewish Committee, meanwhile, condemned a separate protest Friday in
The director of the AJC’s Ramer Institute in
Source: religionnews.com
