by Reuters
Authorities received a "a very serious tip" that an attack on the synagogue in the town of Hagen could take place during the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur.
Police averted a possible Islamist attack on a synagogue in western Germany
and arrested four people including a 16-year-old Syrian youth in
connection with the threat, the regional interior minister said on
Thursday.
Authorities
had received a "a very serious and concrete tip" that an attack on the
synagogue in the town of Hagen could take place during the Jewish
festival of Yom Kippur, the minister, Herbert Reul, said.
Officers
tightened security around the building on Wednesday evening and
searched it for bombs but found nothing dangerous, Reul, interior
minister for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, told a news
conference.
He
said the synagogue had called off its celebration of Yom Kippur, when
observant Jews hold overnight vigils. The tip-off had included details
of the timing of an attack, he added.
Earlier
on Thursday, police in Hagen said they had arrested four people as a
result of their investigation into the threat and had searched various
buildings.
Reul said one of those detained was a 16-year-old from Hagen with Syrian roots.
Germany, still scarred by the Holocaust, has seen a rise in antisemitic violence in recent years, mostly carried out by the far-right.
In
2019, a right-wing extremist launched an armed attack on a synagogue in
the eastern town of Halle, shooting dead two passers-by. Then, police
faced criticism for being slow to attend the scene, though they
eventually arrested the attacker, who is now serving a life sentence for
the murders.
Reuters
Source: https://www.jpost.com/international/yom-kippur-attack-on-german-synagogue-averted-by-police-679593
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