Authorities have arrested a 26-year-old man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at a synagogue in New Jersey — the latest incident in a string of antisemitic threats in the state.
Police in Bloomfield, N.J. are looking for the suspect who hurled a Molotov cocktail at the entrance of a synagogue early Sunday morning. Surveillance video shows him wearing a ski mask and skull and crossbones top.Bloomfield Division of Public Safety
on Wednesday evening. He praised federal, state and local law enforcement for working swiftly together. "The defendant is alleged to have gone to a synagogue in the middle of the night and maliciously attempted to damage and destroy it using a firebomb," Sellinger said. The incident caused no physical damage to the synagogue, but the attack rattled the community nonetheless.shows a man wearing a ski mask, hooded sweatshirt with a skull and crossbones design on the front, dark shoes and white gloves walking up to the front entrance of the temple. He pauses briefly to ignite the wick of a bottle, then hurls it toward the door. Without waiting to witness the Molotov cocktail's impact — it bounces onto the ground and shatters — the man flees on foot.
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