The heavy attack on a Jewish shop near New York is treated as a terrorist case by the US authorities. "The evidence points to an act of hatred," said New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal. The investigators believe that the motive of the alleged perpetrators anti-Semitism and an antipathy to the police have been.
On Tuesday, two gunmen had killed three civilians in the shop and one policeman before. Eventually they died in a shootout with the police. Grewal confirmed on Thursday that the alleged perpetrators had shown interest in the partially anti-Semitic group of "Black Hebrews". This does not mean that they had deep connections.
Grewal said a variety of weapons had been found in the supermarket, including a gun in the style of the semi-automatic rifle AR-15. "They had a huge arsenal," Grewal said.
"They had an enormous arsenal of weapons"
The investigators had called the place shortly after the fact as coincidental, only later said that the place had been actively selected, but initially not spoken by anti-Semitic motives.
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop described the attack as a hate crime on Wednesday night. "Anti-Semitism should be clearly and immediately named for what it is," Fulop said, according to the New York Times. He is the grandson of survivors of the Holocaust.
On Twitter, he wrote: "I'm glad we now call it what it was, and with every passing day, the impact of the term has diminished, too often people are reluctant to name hate because they might insult someone else with it, that was anti-Semitism, which has no place in our community, city, state, country. "