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Contact: Mark B. Levin/NCSJ 202.898.2500 MLevin@ncsj.org

NCSJ COMMENDS FIRM JUSTICE AGAINST NEO-NAZIS; DENOUNCES ATTACK AGAINST MOSCOW SHUL

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 12, 2011 - A synagogue in northern Moscow was firebombed last night in an attack that police believe was in retaliation for the conviction of 12 neo-Nazis earlier in the day. NCSJ commends the Moscow court for its verdicts against the violent extremist gang, and denounces the attack against the synagogue. 

On Monday, the gang was convicted of a killing spree of over two dozen people, whom they believed to be not ethnically Slavic. Five men were sentenced on murder charges to life in prison, and seven others received lengthy sentences. 

Late Monday night, according to Chabad's web site and other sources, unknown assailants threw six Molotov cocktails at a synagogue in the Otradnaya district in north Moscow. Police have called this an anti-Semitic crime.

NCSJ unequivocally condemns this attack and urges Moscow authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice swiftly. 

We will keep you apprised of developments in this story as they come to light.

NCSJ: Advocates on Behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia, founded in 1971, represents the organized American Jewish community in monitoring and advocating on behalf of the estimated 1.5 million Jews living in the 15 successor states of the former Soviet Union.

Website: http://WWW.NCSJ.ORG
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phone: 202-898-2500

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