4 German Youths Held in Firebombing
Four young right-wing extremists have been arrested for firebombing a synagogue, German authorities said Monday.
The March 25 attack in the northern port city of Luebeck was the first time a Jewish house of worship had been set on fire since the Nazi era. It charred two front rooms of the synagogue, where the city’s small Jewish community was planning to hold its first Passover Seder since the Holocaust.
Five tenants sleeping in apartments above the synagogue were not hurt in the attack.
The four suspects, all from Luebeck, plotted the firebombing “out of hate against foreigners and against Jews” and are being held on suspicion of attempted murder, the federal prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe said Monday.
The firebombing shamed and enraged many Germans.
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