Police forces stand in front of the Jewish community Kahal Adass Jisroel on Brunnenstrasse in Berlin-Mitte Photo: Christoph Soeder/dpa
From the BZ editorial team
After the attempted arson attack on a synagogue in Berlin, the capital’s public prosecutor’s office took over the investigation.
The authority announced this on Thursday and justified this, among other things, with the escalating nature of the attack.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the facility on Brunnenstrasse in Mitte.
The building on Brunnenstrasse houses several Jewish institutions – in addition to the synagogue of the Kahal Adass Yisroel association, there is also a Talmud Torah school.
As the police confirmed on Wednesday, there were two perpetrators who were masked and ran away after the crime at 3:45 a.m. “The bottles hit the sidewalk and broke. The fires went out.”
A small fire that broke out in a place where the perpetrators had previously been was able to be extinguished using a fire extinguisher by a Central Property Protection employee.