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Counter Terrorism Command takes over investigation into antisemitic incidents across Sydney
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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1/12/2025
A warning: This story contains images of Nazi symbols. Counter Terrorism Command has now taken over the investigation into the antisemitic incidents across Sydney. Reporter Digby Werthmuller has the details.
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Well the New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb and the State Premier Chris Minns
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briefed media a short while ago on the latest to do with the investigations with regards
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to anti-Semitic attacks across Sydney and the latest piece of information was that the
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counter-terrorism squad would be handling investigations going forward.
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But another piece of information that also came to light was that an accelerant was used
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during an attack at a synagogue in Sydney's Newtown yesterday morning.
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That fire, which is now being treated as an arson attack, only lasted three minutes before
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it put itself out and Karen Webb has labelled that incident as an obvious hate crime.
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Police are also not 100% sure on whether the pair who were involved in that attack yesterday
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morning were female or male.
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In Newtown yesterday morning police discovered what was some very obvious hate crime on the
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synagogue.
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This is a criminal act and that's the important message here.
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This is a crime and it deserves the full extent of the law.
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This is an escalation in anti-Semitic crime in New South Wales.
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Police and the government remain very concerned that an accelerant may have been used in Newtown
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on Saturday morning.
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This would lead everyone to believe that this escalation is very concerning, not just for
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the Jewish community but for the wider community.
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Yesterday's incident follows a number of anti-Semitic attacks across Sydney's east in recent weeks.
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The President of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies has labelled these attacks
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as sickening.
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The Premier of New South Wales, Chris Mins, has extended a $340,000 grant to the Jewish
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Board of Deputies to help them bolster up security across various venues in Sydney and
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New South Wales.
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It's also very clear from the messaging this morning from the Premier and the Police Commissioner
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that they're really going to have to rely on the public to provide them with information
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to help identify those people they're wanting to talk to with regards to yesterday's incident
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and as well as an incident in Alawa on Thursday where police released the image of the face
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of a man who was involved in that attack there.
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So public reliance is very heavily what police are relying on.
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