Overview
- Counter Terror Policing London arrested a 19-year-old in Portsmouth on Thursday on suspicion of attempted arson at Finchley Reform Synagogue on April 15, with no injuries or damage reported.
- Police said Friday that a 48-year-old was detained in Leytonstone in the Hatzola ambulance firebombing case, marking the ninth arrest tied to the March 23 Golders Green attack.
- A 50-year-old man was arrested Thursday after allegedly telling Jewish passengers on a Hackney bus to “go to the gas chambers,” with police treating it as an antisemitic hate crime.
- Across linked cases since March, officers report about 31 arrests with eight people charged, and a 17-year-old has pleaded guilty to arson over the Kenton United Synagogue attack on April 18.
- The Met has increased visible patrols, launched a 100-officer Community Protection Team, and urged vigilance as the national threat level stands at severe and investigators review unproven foreign-link and online radicalisation leads.