This Wednesday, unknown persons attacked a synagogue in Berlin with Molotov cocktailswhile incidents against the Jewish community in Germanywithin the framework of the new armed conflict between the group Hamas and Israel.
Community Kahal Adass Jisroel reported that its synagogue in the Berlin neighborhood of Mitte had been attacked with two incendiary devices.
“Unknown persons threw two Molotov cocktails from the street”denounced the community in the social network X (ex Twitter), although these objects bounced off the structure and ended up exploding on the sidewalk.
The incident occurred in central Mitte district around 3:45 (local time) and those responsible managed to flee despite the intervention of police officers assigned to monitor the synagogue.
Dozens of police officers were investigating outside the building Wednesday morning. The entire street was cordoned off and closed to traffic.
New incident against the Jewish community in Germany
In a second incident that occurred in the morning, police investigating the attack temporarily detained a young man who was running towards the building shouting anti-Israel slogans and are investigating him.
After the incident, the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz posted a message on X in which he condemned anti-Semitic hatred. “Attacks against Jewish institutions, violent incidents in our streets. This is inhuman, disgusting and cannot be tolerated,” wrote the head of state, currently visiting Egypt.
“Anti-Semitism has no place in Germany. My thanks to the security forces, especially in this situation,” he added.
Before, Scholz had expressed shock at the destruction of a hospital in the Gaza Strip“I am horrified by the images we receive of the explosion in a hospital in Gaza,” he said.
For its part, the Jewish community of Berlin asked for the solidarity of the inhabitants of the German capital after the attempted attack on a synagogue.
“We are all shocked by this terrorist attack,” the Central Council of Jews declared in a statement.
“Above all, the families in the neighborhood around the synagogue are shocked and uneasy. Words become actions. The ideology of Hamas of extermination of everything Jewish is also having an effect on Germany”.
“85 years after the night of the pogroms of the Third Reich, the synagogues are going to burn again in the German capital,” warned the president of the Jewish community of Berlin, Gideon Joffe.
“Anti-Jewish violence on the streets of Berlin has thus reached a new dimension,” he warned.
Source: Ambito
