2024-05-06 00:12:47
At least three synagogues and a museum in Manhattan and Brooklyn received bomb threats yesterday, but none were deemed credible by the New York police, New York authorities said, cited by Reuters.
The manager of the New York administrative district of Manhattan – Mark Levine, wrote on the social platform “X” that the bomb threats were “a pure hate crime and part of a growing trend of acts of aggression against Jewish institutions.”
“This is an obvious attempt to instill fear in the Jewish community. We cannot accept it,” he added. A total of 250 people were evacuated from two synagogues in Manhattan as a result of the bomb threats.
New York State Governor Kathy Hawkel said in her turn in “X” that the state authorities are “extensively investigating a number of bomb threats against synagogues in New York” and they were “assessed as not credible”.
“We will not tolerate people who sow fear and anti-Semitism,” she wrote.
A police spokesman confirmed that a series of bomb threats were received yesterday, including by e-mail against the Brooklyn Museum and one against a synagogue in Brooklyn, reports Reuters, cited by BTA. No explosive devices were found, according to the New York police.