Heavily armed police raided two inner Sydney properties over an alleged attempt to burn down a synagogue at Newtown.
A man has been arrested and charged with allegedly trying to burn down an inner Sydney synagogue after counter-terrorism police were called in to investigate the suspected antisemitic attack.
Two masked and hooded men were captured on CCTV spraying swastika symbols on the Newtown Synagogue before pouring clear accelerant on the building and lighting it on the evening of January 11.in two days, after another was targeted with graffiti referencing Adolf Hitler and swastikas in the southern suburb of Allawah.
Police from Strike Force Pearl, which includes counter-terrorism investigators, executed two search warrants on Tuesday evening at two homes on Pyrmont Bridge Road in Camperdown. A 33-year-old man, picked up in the raids, was arrested and taken to St Vincent’s Hospital under police guard.Moule was taken to Surry Hills police station and charged with destroying property in company by fire, property damage in company, stolen goods and cultivating a prohibited plant.Strike Force Pearl has now put nine people before the courts after a string of suspected antisemitic attacks across Sydney, particularly in the eastern suburbs where many Jewish residents live.
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