Montreal, Canada - Antisemitic Attack on Jewish Boys School

Montreal, Canada - Police are investigating an attack on an orthodox Jewish school.
Surveillance video recovered by Montreal police shows a masked man throwing a firebomb at the door of the Taldos Yakov Yosef Skver Boys school in Outremont on Ducharme Avenue in an attack early Shabbas morning.

Late Friday night early Shabbas morning a Molotov cocktail was thrown through a window into the vestibule of the school and exploded and started a fire but the damage was described as minimal to the Hallway and an Office, all this just minutes after the school had been vacated, and the buchrim finished eating their Shabbas night meal.

Neighbors upon hearing the explosion and a window breaking just after midnight looked out to see the main entrance in flames, they notified the Police Department who are investigating and they hope to capture the perps with help of surveillance cameras that all Jewish schools have installed in the past year.
Police said in the video, the man takes a few steps toward the entrance, then steps back to throw a lighted Molotov cocktail. He removes his mask as he steps out of the video frame, but his face is not visible.

"We have every confidence that the perpetrators of this despicable attack will be caught by police and charged accordingly," said CJC QR President Jeffrey K. Boro. "Such hateful acts cannot be tolerated by our society," Boro said.

Although officials of Jewish groups disagree, police have been unwilling to declare the attack a hate crime. In the absence of graffiti or other other evidence, it is being treated as an unexplained case of arson.