NSW premier Chris Minns says police will track down people behind Maroubra attack and foreshadows new anti-hatred laws
Just before 1am on Tuesday, emergency services were called to the centre in Maroubra where firefighters extinguished the blaze, but the building sustained extensive damage, NSW police said in a statement.
Antisemitic graffiti was found spray-painted on an external wall. The building was unoccupied at the time and there were no reports of injuries, police said.The NSW premier, Chris Minns, said he was “very alarmed and concerned” about the incident and a wave of similar recent attacks in Sydney.“This is not just malicious damage or random graffiti, as appalling as that would be if it was racially motivated,” he said on Sydney radio station 2GB.
The NSW minister for multiculturalism, Steve Kamper, said that to target a childcare centre less than 200m from a synagogue was unconscionable and heartbreaking. “This despicable act has no place in our society. Antisemitism must be unequivocally condemned,” he said. “The cowardly thugs who perpetrated these acts deserve to be met with the full force of the law, they are a blight on our multicultural society. We will be meeting with the NSW Faith Affairs Council prior to the next parliament sitting to review stronger legislation.”A 34-year-old woman was arrested on Monday in relation to an alleged antisemitic attack on Magney Street in Woollahra in mid-December.
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