– Toronto Jewish school targeted by shooting
A Jewish school for girls in Toronto, Canada, was targeted by gunfire on Saturday morning, without causing any injuries, police announced, against a backdrop of tensions linked to the conflict in the Middle East.
The police will strengthen their presence in the neighborhood but also in other schools and synagogues (illustrative photo).
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Shortly before 5 a.m., shots were fired at Bais Chaya Mushka Girls’ Elementary School in the North York neighborhood in northern Toronto.
The suspects got out of a dark-colored vehicle and “opened fire on the school, damaging the facade of the establishment,” police inspector Paul Krawczyk said during a press briefing.
The police will strengthen their presence in the neighborhood but also in other schools and synagogues. “We are not going to ignore the evidence, what happened here and who the target of the shooting was,” said Paul Krawczyk. But at the same time, it would be wrong to simply speculate at this stage.
“Blatant demonstration of anti-Semitism”
The Prime Minister of Ontario, Doug Ford, denounced on the social network shots.
“This shocking escalation of violence directed against innocent Jewish children should serve as a wake-up call to political leaders in our city and across our country,” said Michael Levitt, CEO of the FSWC.
In November, a Jewish faith school in Montreal, Quebec, was targeted twice in the same week by gunfire, without causing any injuries.
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