Hundreds of additional police officers have been deployed across Manchester after Thursday’s deadly attack at a synagogue
Pro-Palestinian rallies were held across the UK on Saturday, two days after the deadly attack on a Manchester synagogue, despite Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s appeal for restraint.
Two people were killed and three others seriously injured when 35-year-old Jihad Al-Shamie, a UK citizen of Syrian descent, launched a car-ramming and knife attack on the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in north Manchester during Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Police shot Al-Shamie dead within minutes of being alerted. Four people — two men and two women — remain in custody on suspicion of terrorism-linked offences after Thursday’s assault, while an 18-year-old woman and a 43-year-old man were released without charge.
The attack, one of Europe’s worst antisemitic incidents since the October 7, 2023, Hamas assault on Israel, has heightened fear within Britain’s Jewish community. Police have since increased patrols at places of worship, focusing on visible protection for Jewish neighbourhoods.
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