Two teens are arrested in connection with the beating of a Jewish teenager in England that left him in a coma.
The teens are arrested early Thursday morning on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and violent disorder in the attack at a train station in the heart of north Manchester’s Jewish community. Manchester police also are calling on witnesses to the attack to come forward.
The 17-year-old victim, identified as Moshe Fuerst, was hospitalized after the attack with serious head injuries. He came out of a coma on Monday night. He is one of four young Orthodox Jews assaulted on the night of September 5 by three men at the train station near Heaton Park.
“These arrests demonstrate that the police are taking this incident very seriously, which I hope gives reassurance to the Jewish community and the wider public,” Greater Manchester Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd tells the London-based Jewish Chronicle.
Lloyd says police are treating the attack as a hate crime.
— JTA
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