Overview
- Police have charged 45-year-old Ali Reza Fallahi of Ilford with arson over a fire at a memorial cabinet beside the Miga Rally wall in Golders Green and he is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court.
- Officers say the blaze was started at the memorial cabinet and was quickly put out without damage to the wall itself at the site on Limes Avenue.
- The charge cites that Fallahi damaged by fire property belonging to Miga Rally with intent to destroy or recklessness as to whether it would be destroyed or damaged under the Criminal Damage Act.
- Miga Rally says the wall commemorates people killed in a crackdown in Iran and victims of the 2023 Nova music festival attack, and the group condemned the attempt to damage the place of remembrance.
- The case is part of a counter‑terrorism investigation that will move through magistrates' court and could help determine whether the incident was one of a series of attacks targeting the Jewish community and Iranian diaspora, with police asking the public to report information.