BRUSSELS: A synagogue was damaged in a blast overnight Sunday to Monday in Liege, eastern Belgium, police said, adding they were investigating the cause of the explosion.
No injuries were reported, with “only material damage,” a spokesman for the police in the city of Liege said in a statement.
The Belgian federal prosecutors’ office in charge of organized crime and terrorism said it will probe a blast that damaged a synagogue Monday in eastern Belgium, with the local mayor denouncing a targeted “antisemitic act.”
“This is all intentional and targeted. We condemn this antisemitic act as strongly as possible,” Willy Demeyer, the mayor of Liege, where the synagogue is located, told Belgian broadcaster RTBF.
“We cannot allow foreign conflicts to be imported into our city,” he said of the early morning blast, which caused no injuries.
