UK charges three men with arson over attack on Jewish community ambulances

UK charges three men with arson over attack on Jewish community ambulances

LONDON, April 3 (Reuters) - British prosecutors said on Friday they had charged three ‌men in connection with an arson ‌attack last month on Jewish community ambulances in north ​London.

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The ambulances were set on fire on March 23 in what British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described as a "deeply shocking antisemitic arson ‌attack".

The SITE Intelligence ⁠website has said an Iran-aligned multinational militant collective called Islamic Movement of ⁠the People of the Right Hand had claimed responsibility for the incident near a ​synagogue in ​the Golders Green ​area of London.

Counter-terrorism officers ‌are heading the investigation, but as yet the incident is not being treated as terrorism.

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The Crown Prosecution Service said the three men - aged 20, 19 and 17 - have been ‌charged with arson with ​intent to damage property ​and being reckless ​as to whether life would ‌be endangered.

Two are British nationals, ​while the ​third is a dual British-Pakistani citizen.

The three men were expected to appear at ​Westminster Magistrates' ‌Court on Saturday.

(Reporting by Sam Tabahriti in ​London and Akanksha Khushi in Bengaluru; ​Editing by Joe Bavier)

 

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