Orenburg, Russia - Police Investigating Synagogue Attack

Orenburg, Russia - Police are investigating an attack on a synagogue. "The synagogue was attacked but we have made this incident public only now because the culprits are evading punishment," a source said.

A group of young men threw stones at the synagogue. They kicked the synagogue doors, shouted anti-Semitic slogans and hit the widows with a metal bar. Eyewitnesses said that the young men called themselves skinheads. "Luckily, no one was hurt. Only a caretaker and several workers were inside the synagogue when the attack took place," the source said.

A police patrol detained a 15-year-old drunk boy near the synagogue, and others escaped, a source at the Orenburg Leninsky district, the police department said. "Criminal proceedings were opened on charges of hooliganism and no charges of extremism were brought. The boy is a minor, so he will not face criminal punishment," the police source said.