Homemade bomb explodes outside Montreal Jewish center

[Behind the Aegis]

Source: Associated Press via Ha'aretz

A homemade bomb exploded outside a Jewish community center in Montreal in the middle of Passover week, injuring no one and causing little damage, police said Wednesday.

Workers at the Ben Weider Jewish Community Centre reported hearing an explosion late Tuesday night.

A homemade bomb exploded and there was a small fire, police spokesman Lynne Labelle said. Police are reviewing footage from the community center's security cameras.

Labelle said they have not determined whether it was a hate crime.




Read more: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/845644.html

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. NYPD is prepared

This was a gesture.

[barb162]

2. Here's another take on it

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/199605
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Steven Slimovitch, national legal counsel for B'nai Brith Canada, is calling the incident a hate crime although he acknowledges there is no evidence yet to corroborate the belief.

"We're certain that it is a crime that has all the earmarks of a hate crime," Slimovitch said.

"It is an explosive device that was left at a visibly identifiable Jewish institution, during a well-known Jewish holiday, roughly three years to the day after the bombing of the United Talmud Torahs.

"You add all these factors together and you cannot help but look at this as a hate crime."

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[xultar]

3. What fuckers. Why do people do this shit. K&R People must see and know

:grr:
that this shit goes on. Racism is ALIVE everywere.

[Behind the Aegis]

4. Update: Pair denied bail

Two Montreal men have been accused of a raft of attacks against the city’s Jewish community, including the firebombing of a Snowdon community centre that police are treating as a hate-related crime.

Omar Bulphred, 21, and Azim Ibragimov, 23, appeared briefly in Quebec Court on Friday to be arraigned on charges stemming from incidents that began last fall. Both were denied bail.

In addition to their alleged roles in a rash of firebombings, the two are accused of conspiring to commit kidnapping and armed robbery. But it’s not known who or what their potential victims were.

The pair were arrested Thursday morning and questioned. The investigation did not turn up links to any terrorist or hate groups, said Constable Christian Emond, of the Montreal police fraud and arson squad.

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[Lurking Dem]

5. Sound like a couple of real winners.

I'm sure there must be drugs involved in there somewhere. And I'm glad they don't appear to be part of an organized hate group.