{"id":535,"date":"2026-09-28T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taneen.tv\/en\/?p=535"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:15:24","slug":"1280-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taneen.tv\/en\/1280-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Citizen Arrested After Attempt to Set Fire to Synagogue in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">German police have reported the arrest of a 37-year-old Afghan citizen on suspicion of attempting to set fire to a synagogue in the city of Wuppertal in western Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">According to police, the incident occurred on Thursday September 17, the 26th of Sunbula, at around 2:00 PM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">The suspect poured flammable liquid at the entrance of the synagogue and then set it alight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">People present at the scene managed to extinguish the fire within a short time. As a result of the incident, no one was injured and the damage was reported as limited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">Police officers arrested the man near the scene shortly after the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">Police said he was already known to security forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">The investigation into this incident is being conducted by the State Security Division of the German police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">Authorities have so far not provided further details about the possible motive for this act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">According to German media reports, the synagogue is under police protection around the clock, and security measures around it have been increased after this incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">The Central Council of Jews in Germany has described the incident as an arson attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">It is worth noting that this synagogue had been targeted in an attack in the past as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">In Asad 1393 (2014), three Palestinian men threw flammable material toward its entrance, and in that incident, no one was injured either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><span class=\"\">The three defendants in that case were subsequently sentenced to suspended punishments on charges of attempted arson.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German police have reported the arrest of a 37-year-old Afghan citizen on suspicion of attempting to set fire to a synagogue in the city of..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Afghan Citizen Arrested After Attempt to Set Fire to Synagogue in Germany - Taneen Tv<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Afghan citizen arrested synagogue Germany \u2014 A 37-year-old Afghan man was arrested after allegedly pouring flammable liquid and setting fire to a synagogue entrance in Wuppertal. 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