Manchester, England (AP). One of the two men killed as a result of an attack on a car and a knife on the synagogue in the city of Manchester could be a tragically killed bullet dismissed by a police officer, forces said on Friday.
The chief of the Grand Manchester police, Stephen Watson, said that the forensic medical examination previously decided that the victim “was consistent with a gunshot injury.” He said that the attacker did not have a pistol, and that the only shots were the police.
“This injury, unfortunately, can be obtained as a tragic and unforeseen consequence of urgently necessary actions taken by my officers to put an end to this vicious attack,” Watson said.
The police said that local residents Adrian Daulby, 53 years old, and Melvin Kravitz, 66 years old, died on Thursday an attack on the Sinagogue of the Park Hiton community in the suburbs of Manchester Krampall. Three other people are hospitalized in serious condition.
The police shot the suspect seven minutes after he rammed the car in pedestrians near the synagogue on Thursday morning, and then attacked them with a knife. He wore what seemed to be a belt of explosive, which, as was recognized as false.
The attack occurred when people gathered in the orthodox synagogue on Yom Kipur, on the day of redemption and the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar.
The main rabbi Efraim Mirwis, the head of the Orthodox Judaism in Britain, said that the attack was the result of the “inexorable wave of a Jew’s hatred” on the streets and on the Internet.
“This is the day when we hoped that we would never see, but that in heart we knew that we would come,” he wrote on social networks.
The attacker was not known to the police
The police identified the attacker as Jihad al-Shami, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent, who entered the United Kingdom in childhood and became a citizen in 2006.
The police said the crime is investigated as a terrorist attack. The Minister of Internal Affairs Shaban Mahmoud said that the attacker was not previously known to the police or was prevented by the national program to combat terror, who is trying to identify people who are at risk of radicalization.
Mahmud said: “For now it’s too early to speak,” whether the attacker acted alone or was part of the cell.
The police said they are still exploring the motive of the attacker. Officials arrested three people on Thursday on suspicion of preparing or committing terrorism. These are two men aged 30 years and a woman aged 60.
Religious and political leaders condemned this attack and promised to reassure the Jewish community of Great Britain, which has about 300,000.
The police said that on Friday on Friday they will be on the streets of Manchester on the streets of Manchester to calm the community.
The registered anti -Semitic incidents in the UK have increased sharply from October 7, 2023 of Hamas 2023, an attack on Israel and the subsequent war of Israel against Hamas in Gaza, according to public security, a lawyer group for British Jews. In the first half of the year, more than 1,500 incidents were registered that the second place was registered in a six -month general standings, since the record established in the same period a year earlier.
Calls for the abolition of pro-Palestinan protests
Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned the “vile” attacker, who “attacked Jews because they are Jews.” He promised British Jews that he would do “everything in my power to guarantee you the safety that you deserve.”
He said that the country will come together “to wrap its hug of your community and show you that Great Britain is a place where you and your family are safe, safe and belonging.”
Some politicians and religious leaders have announced the missing demonstrations that were regularly carried out since the start of the Gaza war, played a role in the spread of hatred of Jews. Some say that such chants as “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” to incite violence. Others, including Jews who support protests, say that they want a ceasefire, the end of the suffering of Palestinians in gas and the liberation of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
Mirvis, the chief rabbi, called on the authorities “to gain control of these demonstrations. They are dangerous. “
“You cannot share the words on our streets, the actions of people in this way and what will inevitably lead, which was yesterday’s terrorist attack,” he said to BBC.
Mahmoud, Minister of the Interior, said that on Thursday evening 40 people were arrested in protests that were not related to the attack on the synagogues and were organized in response to the interception of the Israeli fleet of the flotilla, trying to break the blockade of Israel in Gaza.
She said that it was “dishonest” that the protests were not canceled after an attack in Manchester.
The police in London called on the organizers to cancel the protest planned on Saturday to resist the ban on the group Palestinian action. The organizers said they did not cancel the demonstration.
___
Lawless reported from London.
