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Damaged window of the synagogue in Hanover
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A window at the synagogue in Hanover was damaged on Wednesday, the highest Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur.
This was confirmed by a police spokesman.
There are no injuries.
According to a report in the »Hannoversche Allgemeine«, a stone or other hard object was thrown through a stained glass window in the women's gallery at around 7 p.m. during the service.
The police spokesman said: 'It is certain that a window was damaged.
How, that has not yet been clarified.« There is no reliable evidence for an attack, the investigations are still ongoing.
"I am deeply shocked"
According to the newspaper report, around 150 people had gathered in the synagogue on the Day of Atonement to pray.
Towards the end of the service, visitors heard a clang and a bang, the newspaper reports.
There was a hole in the window about six meters up.
Michael Fürst, the chairman of the congregation, told the newspaper: “The perpetrator must have entered the synagogue grounds.
I am deeply shocked.«
Numerous politicians commented on the case on social networks.
"Horrible!" wrote the Greens member of the Bundestag Sven-Christian Kindler on Twitter.
He comes from Hanover.
“My solidarity is with the Jewish community.
We must all resolutely oppose this anti-Semitic violence!” The FDP MP Frank Müller-Rosentritt wrote on the same network that anti-Semitism had once again shown “its hideous face”.
Yom Kippur is the highest Jewish holiday.
It falls on different dates in September or October from year to year.
Three years ago, on this holiday in Halle (Saxony-Anhalt), a heavily armed right-wing extremist and anti-Semitic assassin tried to cause a bloodbath in the fully occupied synagogue of the Jewish community in Halle.
He threw incendiary and explosive devices and shot at the access door on October 9, 2019, but could not get onto the premises because the door withstood the attack.
He shot a passer-by in front of the synagogue and a 20-year-old in a nearby kebab shop.
The Naumburg Higher Regional Court sentenced the perpetrator to life imprisonment with subsequent preventive detention.
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