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[Regnum] A suspect in an attempt to set fire to a synagogue was detained by police in Warsaw. The press service of the Warsaw police reported this on May 1 on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
“The police, together with employees of the Internal Security Agency, detained a 16-year-old man, a citizen of Poland, related to the incident that occurred tonight on the territory of the synagogue on Twarda Street in Warsaw,” the report clarifies.
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The synagogue named after the spouses Zalman and Rivka Nozhik (Nozhik Synagogue) is the main synagogue of the Union of Jewish Communities of Poland. It is the only synagogue in Warsaw that survived the Second World War. An attempt to set fire to the building was already made in 1997, as a result of which the synagogue lobby was damaged. Since 2008, the building has been undergoing reconstruction.
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that in the center of Warsaw, unknown attackers tried to set fire to a synagogue using a Molotov cocktail. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic, Radoslaw Sikorski, no one was injured. A bottle with a combustible mixture crashed against the wall of the building; traces of soot and soot remained on the wall. The building was not seriously damaged.
div style=background:#CCCCFF;color:black;;>The Times of Israel adds: Polish authorities on Wednesday condemned an attempted arson attack against a Warsaw synagogue.
Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, quoting the country’s chief rabbi, said that "someone tried to set fire to the Nozyk synagogue with a Molotov cocktail."
"Thank God no one was hurt," the minister added in a post on X, the former Twitter.
An AFP journalist who went to the scene saw a black stain across a window that appeared to have been caused by flames. But there was no major damage to the synagogue.
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