(Adnkronos) – Italy has deplored a stabbing and car ramming attack at a synagogue in the northern British city of Manchester on Thursday – the holiest Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur – in which two people were killed and three others were seriously injured.
“It is important to underline our strong condemnation today, when Israel and all Jewish communities around the world pause to remember Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement),” Tajani told members of Italy’s upper house Senate during a briefing on the two-year-old Israel-Gaza war.
Police say a large number of people worshipping at the synagogue at the time of the incident “were held inside while the immediate area was made safe, but have since been evacuated”.
“Additional police assets” will be deployed at synagogues across the UK after the Manchester attack, said premier Keir Starmer, who will chair a meeting of the government’s emergency COBR committee in London later on Wednesday.
A neo-Nazi gunman shot dead two people outside a synagogue in Halle, eastern Germany on 9 October 2019 after failing to storm the building, where 52 worshippers including 10 US citizens were celebrating Yom Kippur.
