Three Arrested After Firebomb Attack on Swedish Synagogue
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Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom tweeted: "The attack against the synagogue in Gothenburg
and threat of violence against Jews in Malmo is deplorable and totally unacceptable.
10, 2017
GOTHENBURG, Sweden — The Swedish police arrested three people on Sunday after a masked gang hurled Molotov
cocktails at a synagogue in the port city of Gothenburg as it hosted an event on Saturday night.
Region West said that There was an actual fire in the yard, but then a heavy rainfall came, and the fire was put out quite quickly.
Anti-Semitism, threats and violence have no place in our society." Calle Persson, a spokesman for the police in Malmo, said about
200 people gathered in the Mollevangstorget square in central Malmo on Friday afternoon to demonstrate against Israel.
According to Radio Sweden in Malmo, which reported from the scene of Friday’s demonstration, protesters said in Arabic, "We’ve called for intifada from Malmo."
But at a demonstration outside the United States Embassy in Stockholm on Saturday, a speaker with a Palestinian scarf wrapped around his neck told the crowd: "There is no room for anti-Semitism here.
Allan Stutzinsky, chairman of the synagogue, who witnessed the fire, told a local newspaper, Dagens Nyheter,
that about 10 young people who had gathered outside the gate began setting fire to objects and throwing them at the synagogue.