Three men were convicted of the attempted arson of a synagogue in Sweden. The three men — two Palestinians and a Syrian — were convicted and sentenced on Monday in Gothenburg. Two were sentenced to two years in prison and the third to 15 months.
They were part of a group of more than a dozen men who hurled firebombs last December at the Gotheburg synagogue hours after locals marched in the southern city against the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Teens from the local Jewish community were attending a party inside the synagogue complex at the time.
The attack, which was classified as a hate crime, was caught on surveillance cameras. There was only minor damage to the building.
