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Greece Synagogue Hania Crete

Crete, Greece - A Greek and two British were arrested in Canée on the island of Crete (south), suspected to have caused two arson at the synagogue in the city on the 5th and 16th of January, which have made significant damage, said Friday a police source.

The three men, a Greeks aged 24 and two Britons of 33 and 23 respectively, are scheduled to appear Friday before the prosecutor, the source said.

They are suspected of having entered on the 5th and 16th January in the courtyard of the synagogue through an adjoining building and set fire to a building of the synagogue, destroying part of its records and its equipment (computers, CD , books ...).

A total of 2500 rare books were destroyed in two fires, according to the director of the synagogue, Hanaan Nikos Stavroulakis, who called the authorities to act against such “anti-Semitic and racist” acts.

The Greek Monitor of the Helsinki Agreement (Epse) condemned in a statement “this anti-Semitic attack, the worst in recent years” and “the silence and complicity of the government and the Greek parties, who have done nothing to prevent this incident.

Acts of vandalism target sporadically Jewish cemeteries and buildings in Greece, whose community is more than a few thousand people, after the killing of more than 80% by the Nazis.

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