Police catch caravan laden with explosives caught outside synagogue in Australia
Australian police said they had foiled a planned antisemitic attack after discovering a caravan containing explosives.
Australian police said on Wednesday they had foiled a planned antisemitic attack after discovering a caravan containing explosives, in an escalation of threats against the Jewish community that authorities called terrorism.
The caravan was discovered on Jan. 19 in Dural, a suburb some 36 kilometers (22 miles) northwest of the center of Sydney, New South Wales Deputy Police Commissioner David Hudson told a news conference.
“That caravan contained an amount of explosives and some indication that those explosives might be used in some form of antisemitic attack,” he told a news conference.
The threat had been fully contained and there was no further threat to the Jewish community, he added.
Hudson said arrests had been made but did not disclose how many or what the charges were.
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