In Moscow, an attack on the synagogue was committed

An unknown person burst into the Moscow chorary synagogue and wounded the guard from a traumatic pistol. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

“On Saturday evening, an unknown man burst into the synagogue in the Bolshoi Spaso -Glinishchevsky lane in the center of Moscow,” the source said. According to him, in addition to the pistol, a man had a canister with combustible liquid. "Other guards who arrived at the scene detained the attacker," the source said.

The wounded is hospitalized. Police officers arrived at the synagogue who handed over the attacker. It turned out to be a 40-year-old resident of the city of Korolev.

The President of the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia, Alexander Beard, called an attempt to penetrate the synagogue in order to aim the "disgusting manifestation of xenophobia." He emphasized that the Saturday was chosen to attack the day for the Jews, when none of the parishioners of the synagogue had neither the means of defense or the opportunity to quickly call the police.

The beard called on Russian society "not to succumb to the provocations of extremists aimed at inciting religious intolerance and interethnic growth, to rally and preserve the world for the future well -being of Russian citizens."

Attacks on synagogues took place in Russia earlier. In 2011, in Moscow, several teenagers threw four bottles of incendiary mixture into the synagogue building in a signaling passage. There was no fire, there were no injured.

In 2010, an explosion occurred in Tver near the city synagogue on Pushkinskaya Street. A homemade explosive device with a capacity of not more than 100 grams in the TNT equivalent worked at about 1:30 in the morning. As a result of the incident, no one was injured.

In 2009, in Khabarovsk, police detained a group of young people who threw bottles with an incendiary mixture of the synagogue and the house of a policeman who investigated the crimes of an extremist orientation.