Posted on 09/16/21
| News Source: i24
Four, including 16-year-old from Syria, detained in incident investigated as Islamist terror attack
German authorities said a possible Islamic terrorist attack on a synagogue was thwarted Thursday.
The attack was intended to hit a place of worship during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, in the city of Hagen in western Germany. Police were tipped off with “very serious and concrete information," said Herbert Reul, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Hagen is located.
The information provided included names and dates in “an Islamist-motivated threat situation.”
The incident caused services to be canceled and law enforcement to cordon off the synagogue.
"After the attack on the synagogue in Halle on the highest Jewish holiday Yom Kippur two years ago, a young person shouted to me: You can't protect us! In Hagen, a synagogue was now once again seriously threatened, presumably with Islamist motives," German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in a statement.
"This time, the security authorities were quicker. We are doing everything humanly possible to protect our people. Never again must Jews live in fear in our country. There is no place for anti-Semites in our society."
Police detained four people in connection with the attack, one of them a 16-year-old boy reportedly from Syria.