Jersey City attack

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On December 10, 2019, an anti-Semitic attack took place in Jersey City that killed six people and is classified by the authorities as a terrorist attack. Among the dead were a police officer, three civilians and the two alleged perpetrators. The three civilians are members of the Jersey City Jewish community - a yeshiva student and the wife of the manager and an employee of the Jewish grocery store where the attack took place.

Sequence of events

Local authorities believe that the assassins first shot police officer Joseph Seals at Bayview Cemetery when he was trying to control them, before driving their rental white van to the target of their attack, a kosher grocery store on Martin Luther King Drive , across from the Stopped business and then opened fire on those present. Two patrolmen subsequently prevented the two perpetrators from leaving the store and possibly attacking other civilians. A heavy firefight followed, a large number of police cordoned off the streets and brought people to safety. At the end of a four-hour exchange of fire, the two terrorists were shot. Two policemen were injured and one person escaped from the store injured.

background

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted that his counterpart, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop , had confirmed it was a "deliberate attack" on the Jewish community. After a thorough review of the surveillance camera footage, it became clear that the perpetrators were targeting the kosher grocery store. The New York Times reported, citing investigators, that one of the attackers had previously spread anti-Semitic messages on the Internet. The New Jersey attorney general later said the perpetrators allegedly also killed a driver for the Uber transportation service . He was shot in the week before the attack.

Perpetration

The perpetrators are said to have been a 47-year-old man named David N. Anderson and his 50-year-old friend Francine Graham. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal confirmed on December 12, 2019 that the alleged perpetrators' motive was anti-Semitism and an aversion to the police. They have shown interest in a certain group of the partially anti-Semitic movement of the "Black Hebrews" . That doesn't mean they had deeper connections with this group. The sect has no connection to Judaism and is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center , which monitors such currents, as a hate group that neither recognizes Judaism nor Christianity but adheres to a mixture of these religions, believing that the original Hebrews were Africans . The extremists among the "Black Hebrews" represent a black supremacy .

Grewal also said an enormous arsenal of weapons was found in the store, including an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle - style weapon . A pipe bomb was found in the car stolen by the perpetrators .

In the course of the investigation, the FBI arrested a 35-year-old man who, according to the prosecutor, was said to have been connected to the perpetrators.

Victim

The killed Jersey City police officer was identified Tuesday as 39-year-old Detective Joseph (Joe) Seals, a father of five. Those killed in the shop were identified as Leah Mindel Ferencz, 33, who ran the market with her husband, Moshe Hirsch Deutsch, 24, a yeshiva student from Brooklyn , and Douglas Miguel Rodriguez, 49, who was employed in the shop.

Reactions

  • Joan Terrell-Paige, member of the city's education committee, commented on the motives of the shooters in a long Facebook post and asked about the possible message behind the shooters: "What is the message they were sending? Are we brave enough to explore the answer to their message? " ("What is the message they sent? Are we brave enough to explore the answer to their message?"). In doing so, she gave a certain justification to a message allegedly sent by means of the hate crime, and explicitly blamed the local Jewish community, in particular the real estate entrepreneur Solomon Dwek , for the gentrification of the city. In direct response to the post, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy accused Terrell-Page of anti-Semitism and urged her to resign on December 18, 2019. A meeting of the Education Committee, scheduled for December 19, to call for Terrell-Page's resignation, was initially postponed due to security concerns.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suspected anti-Semitic act. Spiegel Online , December 12, 2019. Accessed December 12, 2019.
  2. ^ A b c Suspect in Jersey City Linked to Black Hebrew Israelite Group. New York Times, December 11, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ Shootout in Kosher Market. Jüdische Allgemeine , December 11, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ Probably targeted attack on Jewish shops. Tagesschau (ARD) , December 12, 2019. Accessed December 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ Another dead after the attack on a Jewish grocery store. Deutschlandradio , December 12, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  6. ↑ Hundreds pack the streets to mourn 2 victims killed in Jersey City attack. CNN, December 12, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  7. ↑ Attack on Jewish shops is treated as a terrorist case. Spiegel Online, December 13, 2019. Accessed December 13, 2019.
  8. ↑ Jersey City Shooting Was 'Domestic Terrorism,' Officials Say New York Times, December 12, 2019. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  9. ↑ FBI arrests potential agents. Spiegel online, December 15, 2019. Accessed December 16, 2019.
  10. ↑ Taylor Romine and Darran Simon: Jersey City school board meeting to address member's controversial social media post is canceled for 'potential security risks' ( Engl. ) CNN . December 20, 2019. Retrieved December 20, 2019.

Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′  N , 74 ° 5 ′  W