One man is in police custody after one of Montreal’s largest shuls was vandalized with anti-Semitic symbols on Wednesday.
Swastikas were painted onto the doors of Westmount’s Shaar Hashomayim. The shul’s rav, Rabbi Scheier, said the suspect had also brought a gasoline canister with him.
“I was actually walking to another meeting and was maybe 100 metres away from the synagogue,” said Rabbi Scheier.
“I quickly turned around and when I got there, the perpetrator had already been put in the back of a police car.”
The rav said he reviewed security footage which showed the man “putting the can of gasoline down and [taking] out the spray paint. That was the first thing he did and thankfully the last thing.”
Police said they received a call from the shul’s security guard at 1:30 p.m. The guard was able to keep the suspect at the scene until police arrived to make the arrest.
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{Matzav.com}
Please do not call the rabbi of this shul a rav. He is a graduate of the Open Orthodox yeshiva in NY and there is a woman ‘rabbi’ who calls herself Rabba on staff.
Having said that, I am happy they caught the culprit before he could do mor damage.