Three sentenced for firebomb attack on Gothenburg synagogue

A Swedish court has found three men guilty of attempted arson of a synagogue.

Two Palestinians and one Syrian were sentenced to jail on Monday for attacking the synagogue in Gothenburg with Molotov cocktails last year.

Gothenberg District Court sentenced the 19-year-old Syrian to one year and three months in prison, while the two Palestinians, aged 24 and 22, received two years.

The men were part of a group who threw firebombs at the shul after a march in the city against the United States’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.