Austria Arrests Syrian Over Attacks on Jewish Leader, Synagogue

Austria Arrests Syrian Over Attacks on Jewish Leader, Synagogue
Austrian Interior Minister Karl Nehammer addresses a news conference in Vienna on Aug. 24, 2020. Leonhard Foeger/Reuters
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VIENNA—Austria has arrested a 31-year-old Syrian refugee suspected of carrying out attacks last week on a Jewish community leader and a synagogue in Austria’s second city Graz, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said on Monday.

The leader of Graz’s Jewish community association, Elie Rosen, was assaulted by a man with a wooden object resembling a baseball bat as he tried to drive into the grounds on Saturday evening. He was able to get back in his car and avoid injury.