The New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb has rejected suggestions that police have failed the Jewish community as investigations continue into the spate of antisemitic attacks in Sydney. Two synagogues and a childcare centre have been targets for arsonists while homes and vehicles have also been torched.
Chris Minns, the premier of New South Wales, emphasized that the operation targeting these antisemitic crimes is “just getting started.”
New South Wales Police Minister Yasmin Catley has commended the work of the state police force regarding their investigations into the recent antisemitic attacks across Sydney. Ms Catley revealed an additional 20 officers have been allocated to Strike Force Pearl,
Authorities in Australia on Wednesday announced the arrest of a 33-year-old man accused of vandalizing and attempting to set fire to a Sydney synagogue earlier this month.
An Australian state has committed more police to investigate a spate of antisemitic crimes after a childcare center was torched near a Sydney synagogue.
A childcare centre has been set alight and graffitied with anti-Semitic words at Maroubra in Sydney's south-east overnight.
The 33-year-old man Camperdown was arrested Tuesday in a Strike Force Pearl raid on two addresses in the area.
Police say they are stepping up investigations after building was graffitied with anti-Jewish slogans and then burnt, causing massive damage but no injuries
Australian detectives are investigating whether foreign actors are paying criminals to commit antisemitic attacks in the country
The building, adjacent to a synagogue and Jewish school, was set on fire and antisemitic slogans were graffitied in is the second antisemitic incident in four days
A synagogue in Sydney was daubed in antisemitic graffiti on Friday, police said, the latest in a spate of incidents targeting Jews in Australia.
Two cars were set on fire, multiple more graffitied with antisemitic slogans, and a house was splashed with paint in a Sydney suburb on Friday, according to statements by the New South Wales Police Force and New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, as law enforcement made arrests for a similar November incident.