After the assault, police had been seen ushering a big group of largely Jewish aged males – some in tears, many trying shocked – away from the synagogue. Some had been sporting white robes, others had been in fits and sporting a skullcap.
Crawshaw stated she noticed about 30 folks being taken out, together with three younger youngsters, with three our bodies additionally dragged out from the constructing on orange stretchers.
“I am appalled by the assault at a synagogue in Crumpsall,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated as he rushed away early from a European political gathering in Copenhagen to return to Britain to chair an emergency assembly.
“The truth that this has taken place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day within the Jewish calendar, makes it all of the extra horrific.”
Starmer stated that further police had been being deployed to synagogues throughout the nation, including: “We are going to do every little thing to maintain our Jewish group secure”.
Britain’s King Charles stated he was “deeply shocked and saddened” to be taught of the assault, “particularly on such a major day for the Jewish group”.
The Israeli embassy in London stated on X that the assault was “abhorrent and deeply distressing” and that it was in shut contact with the Manchester Jewish group.
