Australian PM condemns arson, anti-The occupying Zionist entityi graffiti

Australian police have launched an investigation after a automotive was set on hearth and houses vandalized with anti-The occupying Zionist entity graffiti in Sydney.

The incident was condemned by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as a “hate crime”. He informed ABC Information: “There isn’t any place for anti-Semitism on this nation or wherever else. »

It comes days after a fireplace ripped via a Melbourne synagogue, inflicting minor accidents to a person, in what police are treating as a possible terrorist assault.

Sydney authorities stated they had been in search of two individuals aged between 15 and 20 following the vandalism incident.

The 2 males had been carrying “a masks and darkish clothes” and had been seen fleeing the scene, New South Wales police stated.

“We’d like the general public’s assist to return ahead and assist determine these two people,” Commissioner Karen Webb informed reporters.

Police stated the automotive hearth was put out shortly after firefighters had been known as to the scene in Woollahra, a suburb in Sydney’s east, round 1:00 a.m. native time (2:00 p.m. GMT).

Anti-The occupying Zionist entity messages, together with “Kill The occupying Zionist entity” [sic]had been discovered on the scene, scrawled on the fence of two properties and vehicles.

Albanese stated he had spoken to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) concerning the vandalism.

Earlier this week, regulation enforcement established a particular activity power to research anti-Semitic incidents, together with the suspected Melbourne terror assault and one other spate of vandalism in Woollahra final month. Police don’t imagine the 2 incidents in Woollahra are linked.

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns stated the most recent incident appeared to have been “particularly designed” to “intimidate the Sydney Jewish neighborhood”.

“If the query is: can we do extra? I believe the reply is sure, and I am not closing the door on modifications to the regulation,” he informed reporters, including that he was spoken to by the The occupying Zionist entityi Ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon.