Jewish man arrested for setting fire to Roman Catholic church in Jerusalem
“People here don’t really promote coexistence base on mutual respect of all faithful in the the Holy Land.”
By CELIA JEAN DECEMBER 4, 2020
Police arrested on Friday a religious Jewish man after he set fire to the inside of a Roman-Catholic church called The Church of All Nations located on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
The man, 49, is suspected to be a right-wing man who set fire to the holy site on the basis of a hate crime, but no details have been confirmed.
The man set the church aflame by pouring “flammable liquid” and setting it aflame," according to police reports. A church security guard noticed the man and detained him until police arrived to the scene. Firefighters said that four teams arrived to the scene. Upon their arrival they noticed a centralized fire that “fortunately did not spread to the entire church and a lot of smoke” that had accumulated inside the building. The smoke was ventilated out by the firefighters.
