In a chilling echo of Europe's darkest days, a 32-year-old man was arrested today for a brazen arson attack on the Beith-Jaakov synagogue in Giessen, near Frankfurt, after security footage captured him dousing the entrance with flammable liquid, igniting a blaze, and brazenly flashing a Nazi salute.
The perpetrator, acting alone according to police, arrived with a black backpack, poured accelerant on a pile of cardboard boxes pressed against the synagogue's facade, and set them ablaze, narrowly avoiding catastrophe as the fire was quickly contained.
