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Bombing attack on the Jewish community center

27-28 sept. 2012·Malmö

Toll
dégâts

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The Malmö community center houses the synagogue, school, and offices of an ancient community, formed in part by Holocaust survivors welcomed by Sweden at the end of the war. An explosive charge is placed against the building, blowing out its façade and windows.

The attack is the culmination of a series of assaults, insults, and acts of vandalism that had made Malmö a case study across Europe: several families had already left the city for Stockholm or Israel, and the community lived under permanent police protection. Swedish authorities and European institutions made this city the example of an urban antisemitism that ordinary policing could no longer contain.

Period :
Attacks (since 1970)
Type :
Attack
Region :
Western Europe
Country :
Suède
Sources

Agence des droits fondamentaux de l'Union européenne, rapports annuels sur l'antisémitisme ; chroniques de presse contemporaines.

At the same place

The catalogue holds no other event at Malmö.

In the same country1

  1. 9 déc. 2017Molotov cocktails thrown at the synagogue during a Jewish youth celebration, three men convicteddégâts

Event 2437 of 2483, in chronological order · Attacks (since 1970): 174 events in the catalogue