Rabbi Meir Lerner of Lubow, a township in the Ukraine, was arrested with his daughter, along with a number of other alleged suspects, in connection with the investigation being conducted into the explosion recently of the citadel of Warsaw.
The rabbi, who has been a resident in Poland for some time, is being held on the technical charge of failing to establish his right of domicile.
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