Montreal, Canada - Man Arrested in Firebombing of Jewish School
Montreal, Canada - Montreal Police with the help of Chaverim, last night a man beleived to be the suspect of the the fire bombing late Friday night, of the Taldos Yakov Yosef D'Skver Boys school, was arrested.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 9/06/2006 10:25:00 AM
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At 10:28 AM,
Anonymous said…
Jewish school calls for calm, donations after attack
MONTREAL - Young students at a firebombed Hasidic school in the Montreal area remain ''nervous'' after the weekend attack, a school official says.
Psychologists have been brought in to work with the youngsters and teachers at the 270-student Skver-Toldos Orthodox Boys School in Outremont, school director Binyomin Mayer said Tuesday.
The Molotov attack by a masked man triggered a brief fire early Saturday and concern throughout the Jewish community. Classes resumed Sunday.
Children have been ''anxious, nervous, crying'' at home and during the night in the wake of the attack, he said.
Those most affected, he added, are aged six to 12.
''The older ones (aged up to 17) are better at coping,'' Mayer said. ''The parents are coping with it.''
At a news conference Tuesday, Mayer and several leaders of the city's Jewish community appealed for calm and spoke reassuringly of security measures in place following the attack.
They also called for heightened vigilance near Jewish places of worship and schooling.
In a prepared statement, the school assessed damages and the cost of required security upgrades at $150,000.
''Donations are needed to secure our school from terror,'' the statement added, in the aftermath of ''a deliberate act to destroy and inflict harm to our school, our students and our community.''
School surveillance cameras show the assailant initially cocked his lit Molotov at the window of a classroom occupied until 20 minutes earlier by 12 religious-school students.
''The event itself reeks of a hate crime,'' said Rabbi Reuben Poupko, co-chair of the Montreal Jewish security advisory committee.
Some 300 families belong to Congregation Toldos Yakev Yosef-Skver, which operates both the boys' school and a nearby girls' school with about 350 students. The Skver branch of Hasidism originated in the Ukraine. The Outremont boys' and girls' schools are the only Skver schools in Canada.
Police continue to classify the attack as a case of arson.
Const. Benoit Couture of Montreal police said there are ''no new developments'' in the case.
''This latest attack must serve as a potent wake-up call reminding us that we can ill afford to bury our heads in the sand,'' Frank Dimant of B'nai Brith Canada.
''We must do everything in our power to ensure that neither Montreal, nor Toronto, nor any of our cities becomes the stage for any further attack,'' Dimant added, ''and we will be meeting with police chiefs across the country to request greater security protections for Jewish communal sites, especially as we approach the Jewish high holiday season and with the school year having just begun.''
The weekend attack ''should be treated as an isolated incident for the moment,'' said Lise Theriault, Quebec's minister of immigration and cultural communities.
''The act that was committed was reprehensible. The person who did it cannot go unpunished EThere's no place for something like this in Quebec.''
At 12:13 PM,
Anonymous said…
were was he caught? is he a muslim?
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