otradnaya

A synagogue in the Otradnaya district in north Moscow suffered minor damage after unknown assailants threw six Molotov cocktails at the structure Monday night.

According to authorities, the attack happened just around midnight and community members were not in the building at the time.

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Dovid Karpov, who holds the pulpit at the 15-year-old synagogue, was out of the city at the time as part of a delegation of local Jews visiting the resting places of Lubavitch leaders.

Local police were quick to classify the attack - which left burn marks to exterior walls - as an anti-Semitic event in retaliation for the murder convictions of 27 neo-Nazi gang members earlier in the day. Investigators briefed Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and reportedly assured him that they would protect Jewish sites in the capital.

via chabad.org