On video: A suspect was arrested in an anti-Semitic attack in Hamburg (Photo: Reuters, Editing: Itai Amram)
Four holes caused by bullets were found this morning (Friday) in a building located near the old synagogue in the city of Essen, in western Germany.
The building was formerly used by the rabbi of the city's synagogue.
The security officials in the country said that they are looking for the suspect in the attack, and that there were no casualties in the incident.
According to the local police, passers-by on the street reported the holes caused by the shooting, and that in the video from the security camera at the scene, an unknown person can be seen shooting at the door of the building, but due to the poor quality of the recording, he cannot be identified.
The city authorities said that the rabbi's residence is not currently used as a residence, but as a museum of the history of German Jewry.
The police said that there is no danger to the public and that the investigation of the case is still ongoing.
The old synagogue in the city of Essen and the Beit Rabbi where the bullet holes were found, were set on fire during the Kristallnacht pogrom that took place in November 1938.
Banners stand at the entrance to the Synagogue in Essen, this morning (Photo: Reuters)
In September of last year, the police in Germany arrested four people, one of them a 16-year-old Syrian boy, on suspicion of planning to attack a synagogue in the city of Hagen in the west of the country during Yom Kippur.
This, two years after an attack near a synagogue in the city of Halla during the holiday.
Following the arrests, events that were supposed to be held at the synagogue in Hagen were cancelled.
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