Germany said on Wednesday it had summoned Iran’s ambassador over an attempted arson attack on a synagogue in 2022, which Berlin believes was orchestrated with help from Tehran.
In December, an Iranian-German citizen was sentenced to two years and nine months in prison for planning an attack on a synagogue in the western German city of Bochum.
The 36-year-old man, Babak J., planned to attack the synagogue but ended up throwing an incendiary device at a nearby school building. No one was injured.
The Dusseldorf court said in handing down the sentence that the attack was planned with the help of “Iranian state institutions.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday that it had summoned the Iranian envoy after receiving written reasons for the verdict.
“We will now immediately share our judgment with our European partners and EU institutions and examine further measures,” the ministry said.
Germany also summoned Iran’s charge d’affaires in December over the plot.
Subpoenas are a way for one country to express high-level displeasure to another country.
In recent years, Germany has become increasingly concerned about rising anti-Semitic sentiment nearly eight years after the end of the Holocaust.
The country has seen a sharp increase in anti-Semitic acts amid recent unrest in the Middle East, according to the Federal Association of Anti-Semitism Research and Information Centers.
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