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London police charge man suspected of smearing feces on synagogues, other Jewish sites
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British police charge a 37-year old man with religiously-motivated criminal damage after a number of attacks on synagogues and Jewish premises in northwest London.
Police say they charged Ionut-Cristian Bold of no fixed address with six counts of racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage, three counts of damaging property plus other offenses and he is due to appear at Willesden Magistrates Court tomorrow where he will enter his plea.
“We will always treat allegations of this nature extremely seriously and these charges follow an investigation by a team of local officers,” Superintendent Zubin Writer says in a statement.
Bold was arrested in the Hendon area of north London on Friday.
The synagogues and a private residence in Golders Green had feces smeared on them, while urine was thrown toward a school and over a car in two other instances.
The force said Thursday that seven Jewish premises, including four synagogues, had been targeted in separate incidents over recent weeks.
The UK has seen an increased number of antisemitic incidents in recent years, with a spike since the October 7, 2023, massacre by Hamas in Israel, and the resulting war in Gaza.
The Community Security Trust (CST), a Jewish charity, recorded 1,521 antisemitic incidents in the first six months of the year, down from a record high of 2,019 incidents in the first half of 2024.
But this year’s number was the second-highest on record, according to the charity, which has monitored antisemitism in Britain since 1984.
The Times of Israel Community.