Berlin’s Jewish community has been shaken by two petrol bombs thrown at a synagogue amid a spike in antisemitic incidents in some European countries.
Police said two people threw “burning bottles filled with liquid” in what was described as attempted arson.
Security has been stepped up around Jewish institutions in Germany since Hamas’s deadly attack on Israel and resulting Israeli reprisals inflamed opinion in the country’s Arab-speaking and Jewish communities.
The two bottles, filled with combustible fluid, burst on the pavement and burned themselves out, the police said, causing no damage. Security services are investigating the attack.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has expressed outrage at the attack.
“I want to expressly say that I am outraged. It outrages me personally what some are shouting and doing,” Scholz said during a visit to Egypt.
