Police in Antwerp, Belgium, arrested six people on Sunday, including a 17-year-old, on suspicion of conspiring to attack Jews from the city’s heavily Charedi community.
The suspects were apprehended after exchanging messages on social media following the assault of dozens of Israelis in Holland’s capital of Amsterdam, Belgian police officials told De Morgen daily on Monday.
The incident in Antwerp coincided with concern that the assaults in the Netherlands—the country’s biggest series of antisemitic assaults in decades—mark the beginning of a new wave of coordinated attacks by Muslims in Europe against their Jewish neighbors.
Recent comments