The Municipal Police of Madrid has reinforced surveillance in synagogues, places of worship and buildings and Israeli or Jewish community centers in Madrid after the appearance of graffiti and the increase in anti-Semitic threats they have suffered since the Hamas terrorist attacks of this purpose. of the week and the Israeli armed response.
This was indicated to Europa Press by municipal sources, who are in coordination with the Ministry of the Interior. In fact, agents of the National Police have also discreetly increased the security of the Israeli Embassy in Madrid, located on Velázquez Street, and other locations, other sources have confirmed to Europa Press.
The Platform Against Antisemitism has denounced on social networks that yesterday, Sunday, it appeared on the door of one of its synagogues, which do not reveal its location to avoid more acts of this type, it woke up with the graffiti ‘Free Palestine’ next to a star of David crossed out, a graffiti that was removed shortly after.
For its part, the Movement Against Intolerance has issued a statement in which, in addition to commenting on the terrorist acts, they denounce anti-Semitic propaganda of all kinds “that seeks to legitimize the extermination of the Jewish people and the elimination of the State of Israel, rejecting silence accomplice and any justification of this terrorist act that provokes a situation of war, today between Israel and Hamas”.
