British police have arrested a man after allegedly stabbed two Jewish people in Golders Greenan area located in the north where there is a large presence of the Jewish population, as reported this Wednesday by the Jewish emergency response NGO Shomrim.
The motives that led the alleged perpetrator to the events are unknown., who initially fled the scene with the weapon in hand but who was later detainedto commit such acts.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews (Board of Deputies of British Jews), which brings together several representatives of the synagogues, confirmed the events, which would have occurred near a synagogue.
“We are in contact with the Community Security Council (CST), the Government and the Police to clarify what happened and guarantee a forceful response,” they lamented.
The victims are being treated by the Jewish Hatzola ambulance service while the authorities (specifically the Anti-Terrorist Police) continue with the relevant investigations to clarify the origin. They were later transferred to a hospital, where they remain in stable condition, as reported by the London Metropolitan Police.
As confirmed by the security forces of There are already 26 people arrested in the country for allegedly planning attacks related to the Jewish community, a figure to which is added the man arrested this Wednesday.
One of these episodes occurred on October 2, the date on which an attack occurred against a synagogue in Manchester (northern England) during the Yom Kippur holiday, in which three people died. One of them was the attacker.
has reacted to the event by pointing out that it is something “worrying“. “It is deeply worrying for everyone in this House. Now there is a police investigation underway, and I think we should all do everything possible to support that investigation,” he said. From the Jewish community they have defended before the BBC that today’s attack has been “shocking but not surprising.”
