UK police may have accidentally shot dead victim in synagogue attack
By Sam Tabahriti
Manchester, England (Reuters) -British police on Friday, the most sacred day of the Jewish calendar Yom Kippur during the efforts to bring an attack on the Manchester synagogue, including someone who died, said two victims.
In the attack on Thursday, two men, 53 -year -old Adrian Daulby and 66 -year -old Melvin Cravitz were killed after a Syrian -origin man put a car on pedestrians and then started to stab a few people except Manchester’s Heaton Park Hebrew Community Synagogue.
The Great Manchester Police Chief Constable Steve Watson said that the attacker killed by the armed officers at the scene did not carry firearms, but one of the killed was a fiery wound.
Watson said in a statement, “Therefore, this injury may have continued as a tragic and unpredictable consequence of the necessary action to end this vicious attack of my officers,” Watson said.
The attacker wore a vest with an explosive device view, but the police then determined that it could not cause an explosion.
England swears to destroy antisemitism
Watson said that another worshiper was believed to be exposed to a fiery weapon wound that does not threaten a life -threatening, and that both victims were thought to be close to each other while the worshipers were trying to prevent the attacker from gaining entry.
Police called the attacker 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie and said they would not find any records to show that the government was directed to the anti-radicalization program.
Facebook said in a statement, the Al-Shamie family is “deep shock” and they want to get away from what they call “disgusting action”.
The British government promised to double the efforts to combat anti -Semitism while the Jewish community hugged the attack.
On Friday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited the attack and spoke to the members of the police and ambulance services employees and praised the “degree of professionalism and speed” they showed in their response.
Police also called on the organizers to a pro -Palestinian group for a pro -Palestinian group for a planned protest this weekend.
Organizers, the police arrested more than 1,500 people in a series of recent protests, will continue, and people more arrest “peaceful signs” to keep the police chosen, he said.
Like other European countries and the United States, England has made a sharp increase in anti -Semitic events in about two years since the war in Gaza.
Israel accused England of allowing it to spread through cities and universities of common antisemitism, and repeated this criticism after the attack on Thursday.
Last month, Starmer announced that Britain recognized the Palestinian state, a decision that was criticized by Israel as a “great award to terrorism”.
British internal minister Shabana Mahmood criticized the pro -Palestinian protests, which took place hours after the Manchester attack, called them as British and honorable and calls people to show love to a community of humanity and some humanity and grieving.
Anti -Semitic events, concerns of the Jewish community
The killing hosted the Jews of England, especially in Manchester, the country’s largest Jewish community outside London and a wide variety of city.
Many Jewish leaders said that they are the only belief in the UK, which requires routine security in their institutions.
According to the Community Security Foundation, which provides security to Jewish organizations in the UK, the worst of the anti -Semitic events in England last year was the worst of only until 2023. Last year, he recorded more than 3,500 events.
Islamophobic events in England have also increased since the beginning of the Gaza War.
On Friday morning there was a heavy police at the attack scene, the debris still lay on the street, and nearby bundles of flowers remained.
28 -year -old Dawud Taj, Manchester, said the government should do a better job to protect people.
Bir There is an atmosphere in the air, dedi he said to Reuters walking to the city center “and everything makes you feel a little shaky.”
(He reports by Sarah Young and William James; by Kate Holton and Andrew Macaskill; editing by Aidan Lewis and Toby Chopra)
