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Monday, September 9, 2024
US federal grand jury charges man for attack on DC synagogue in December
A federal grand jury has indicted an Ohio man for a December attack outside of a Washington, DC, synagogue in which he reportedly yelled, “Gas the Jews.”
He was indicted on three counts of “obstructing by force or threat of force a person’s enjoyment of their free exercise of religious beliefs, while using a dangerous weapon,” a statement from the Justice Department says.
The December attack came around the same time as a spate of bomb threats aimed at synagogues, and days after shots were fired at a synagogue and preschool in Albany, New York. The indictment comes days after a man was arrested in Quebec for a plot to kill Jews in New York City on October 7, the one-year anniversary of the Hamas-led atrocities in southern Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza.
