An explosion struck overnight at a Jewish school in Amsterdam in what the city’s mayor called a “targeted attack against the Jewish community.”
The blast hit the outer wall of the school, located in Buitenveldert, considered the city’s modern Jewish quarter and home to synagogues, religious schools and Jewish restaurants.
Police have obtained images of the person who allegedly detonated the bomb, the City of Amsterdam told CNN in a statement.
“This is a cowardly act of aggression towards the Jewish community,” Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema said.
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