The Scotsman

Three arrests after synagogue firebombed

- By JARI TANNER

Three people who allegedly threw firebombs at a synagogue in Gothenburg have been arrested, as Jewish groups condemned the attack and demanded authoritie­s take action.

The attack, the second anti-jewish incident in Sweden in two days, occurred during a youth event at the synagogue and the neighbouri­ng Jewish centre in the country’s second-largest city.

Witness Allan Stutzinsky said he saw a dozen masked youths throwing what appeared to be firebombs into the garden surroundin­g the synagogue on Saturday night, but

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