So the kid is ok with taking money to burn a random building, but not to take it for a Jewish church? Nice that he isn’t hateful, but his moral code is still broken.
[IsraelTimes] 17-year-old prosecuted in latest attack on UK Jewish institution says he didn’t know it was a synagogue; police still seeking two other suspectsA teenager has pleaded guilty to arson but claimed he was unaware that the targeted building in northwest London was a synagogue, and said he bore no ill will toward Jewish people.
The attack was among several separate assaults against Britannia’s Jewish community in recent weeks. After the 17-year-old boy was arrested along with a 19-year-old in connection with the incident, Matt Jukes, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, said the arrests came amid a pattern of "thugs for hire" as the UK sees "the pressure of hostile states bearing into our communities."
The 17-year-old, who cannot be identified because of his age, pleaded guilty to arson not endangering life when he appeared before Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
Surveillance footage showed the boy climb over a wall at Kenton United Synagogue, in Harrow, on Saturday night, and set light to a bottle of liquid before throwing it through a broken window. The fire caused some smoke damage, and no one was injured.
The boy said he did not know the building was a synagogue and that he didn’t intend to harm anyone.
"I have no hate toward the Jewish people," he said in a written statement. "I am very sorry for my actions."
The boy was released on bail and ordered to appear at Willesden Youth Court on June 4. In addition to the 19-year-old, who has been released, police are seeking two other suspects.
There has been a series of arson attacks against synagogues and other Jewish targets in the UK since March 23, when four ambulances owned by a Jewish charity that serves people of all faiths in Golders Green, north London, were torched. No one has been injured in any of the incidents.
Police have said they are looking into whether Iran
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Counterterror police said 23 people have been arrested so far.
And society is better off with them locked up until they learn not to burn buildings for pay, even if it’s not personal.
Seven of those were held on suspicion of conspiring to set fire to an unspecified Jewish venue, London’s Metropolitan Police said.The newly founded Islamist group Harakat Ashab al-Yamin al-Islamiya (HAYI), or Movement of the Companions of the Right Hand of Islam, which has links to Iran, has grabbed credit for many of the recent attacks across Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
on American, Israeli and Jewish targets, according to SITE Intelligence Group.
UK police arrest two more suspects amid arson attacks on Jewish targets in London
[IsraelTimes] UK counter-terrorism officers investigating a spate of arson attacks on Jewish and other sites in London have made two further arrests, bringing the total number to 25, police say.
The capital’s Metropolitan Police announce two new arrests as part of “a proactive investigation” into an “alleged conspiracy to commit arson at a venue related to the Jewish community.”
Police say the latest arrests, of men aged 19 and 26 in Watford, north of London, were made on Tuesday. These suspects remain in custody.
The men were arrested on suspicion of planning an arson attack, but the Jewish community venue targeted was “unknown,” police say.
Six sites, all of them Jewish save a Persian media outlet that is critical of Iran, have been targeted by arson attacks in recent weeks.
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