A Molotov cocktail was thrown at a Warsaw synagogue.

It is suspected that a young man of Polish nationality tried to set fire to the Nozyk Synagogue in Warsaw on Wednesday. The Warsaw police headquarters informed the Polish news agency PAP about the incident.

Polish President Andrzej Duda wrote on X: There can be no place for anti-Semitism and hatred in Poland.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on X, referring to Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich: someone threw a Molotov cocktail at the building, no one was injured in the incident.

Interesting, who is trying to disrupt the anniversary of our accession to the European Union? - Sikorski mentioned in the post that Poland is also celebrating the 20th anniversary of joining the EU on Wednesday. He added: "Were they really the same people who scribbled stars of David in Paris?".

The minister was referring to the fact that in October last year, after the outbreak of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stars of David and the inscriptions "Palestine will win" appeared on some buildings in Paris.

Wednesday's incident was condemned by the Israeli and American ambassadors in Warsaw on social media, and also at the press conference held in front of the Nozyk synagogue on Wednesday afternoon.

On Wednesday evening, Deputy Minister of the Interior Czeslaw Mroczek announced that the police had detained a person suspected of committing the crime.

He is a 16-year-old Polish citizen who was arrested in the Bemovo district of Warsaw with the cooperation of the Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW).

Built in 1902, the Nozyk Synagogue is the only Jewish sanctuary in the Polish capital that has survived from the period before World War II.

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Cover image: Someone tried to set fire to the Nozyk Synagogue
Source: X/Yacov Livne (Ambassador of Israel to Poland)