London – Detectives in London arrested a 55-year-old man on Thursday, on suspicion of arson and racially aggravated harassment.
The man is suspected of having set fire to the car of a Jewish woman, aged in her 30s, on Monday, November 6, and then of harassing her on the street on Tuesday, November 21.
The victim was not harmed, police said, but Detective Sergeant Chris Church called the incident “a terrifying experience for the victim who was just going about her day.”
The suspected hate crime comes amid a wave of antisemitic incidents in the UK and around the world, following Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel and the subsequent war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
