Police are investigating the vandalism last Friday of the Lubavitch synagogue in Milan but are not treating the case as an anti-Semitic incident.
“The police unit that normally investigates incidents of possible religious or political intolerance was not even informed of the affair,” according to a report in Corriere della Sera.
According to the newspaper’s account, a member of the congregation left the second-floor prayer room at about 6 p.m., locking the door behind him.
When he returned a half-hour later, the reporter said, “he found before him a desolate sight.”
A glass-covered bulletin board used for posting announcements to the congregation was pulled down. Seats were broken, a bookshelf was knocked down and a curtain was torn.
But there were no signs of forced entry.
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