Three Arrested After Firebomb Attack on Swedish Synagogue<br />The perpetrators will answer for their crimes." 300 Miles Norwegian Sea NORWAY SWEDEN<br />FINLAND Stockholm Gothenburg DENMARK Baltic Sea GERMANY POLAND DEC. 10, 2017<br />Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom tweeted: "The attack against the synagogue in Gothenburg<br />and threat of violence against Jews in Malmo is deplorable and totally unacceptable.<br />10, 2017<br />GOTHENBURG, Sweden — The Swedish police arrested three people on Sunday after a masked gang hurled Molotov<br />cocktails at a synagogue in the port city of Gothenburg as it hosted an event on Saturday night.<br />Region West said that There was an actual fire in the yard, but then a heavy rainfall came, and the fire was put out quite quickly.<br />Anti-Semitism, threats and violence have no place in our society." Calle Persson, a spokesman for the police in Malmo, said about<br />200 people gathered in the Mollevangstorget square in central Malmo on Friday afternoon to demonstrate against Israel.<br />According to Radio Sweden in Malmo, which reported from the scene of Friday’s demonstration, protesters said in Arabic, "We’ve called for intifada from Malmo."<br />But at a demonstration outside the United States Embassy in Stockholm on Saturday, a speaker with a Palestinian scarf wrapped around his neck told the crowd: "There is no room for anti-Semitism here.<br />Allan Stutzinsky, chairman of the synagogue, who witnessed the fire, told a local newspaper, Dagens Nyheter,<br />that about 10 young people who had gathered outside the gate began setting fire to objects and throwing them at the synagogue.
