Police have charged the alleged mastermind and an accomplice who they say orchestrated and carried out a series of antisemitic attacks across Sydney this year.<\/p>\n
The two men have been charged over graffiti depicting a swastika on an Allawah synagogue on January 10 and similar incidents at a childcare centre in Maroubra and a home in Dover Heights.<\/p>\n
Days after the incident at Allawah, the Maroubra childcare centre was set alight after being vandalised.<\/p>\n
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The charges relate to the damage of the former Dover Heights home of Alex Ryvchin. (ABC News: Ethan Rix)<\/p>\n
A nearby school in Maroubra was also graffitied with offensive messaging.<\/p>\n
The school declined to comment when contacted and the ABC has reached out to the Allawah synagogue and Maroubra daycare centre.<\/p>\n
The graffiti in Dover Heights was on a home formerly occupied by Jewish Australian Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin.<\/p>\n
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Security footage of two people in black, with one pouring a flammable liquid on a street and setting it alight outside the former home of Jewish leader Alex Ryvchin. (ABC News)<\/p>\n
Four cars were also torched on the same street, police said.<\/p>\n
At the time both Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns condemned the acts targeting Mr Ryvchin.<\/p>\n
The ABC contacted Mr Ryvchin, who did not wish to comment on the latest development.<\/p>\n
NSW Police said counterterrorism detectives under Strike Force Pearl charged the two men in June and July this year.<\/p>\n
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The childcare centre building in Maroubra was near a synagogue was damaged. (ABC News: Abbey Haberecht)<\/p>\n
Police allege a 27-year-old man orchestrated the attacks and has been charged with directing a criminal group and participating in a criminal group.<\/p>\n
A 26-year-old man, who police allege committed the attacks under the instruction of the older man, has been charged with knowingly displaying a Nazi symbol destroying or damaging property in company and participating in a criminal group.<\/p>\n
The men will front the Downing Centre Local Court next month.\u00a0<\/p>\n
ASIO revealed in August that intelligence pointed to the involvement of Iranian operatives in two antisemitic attacks on Australian soil.<\/p>\n
Director-general of ASIO, Mike Burgess, at the time said Iran directed the firebombings of Lewis’ Continental Kitchen in Bondi and a Melbourne synagogue last October and December respectively.<\/p>\n
While not singling out the incidents in Allawah, Maroubra and Dover Heights at the time, the government said it suspected Iran was behind other incidents of antisemitism.<\/p>\n
The move prompted the government to expel the Iranian ambassador and prepare legislation to class Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terror group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have charged the alleged mastermind and an accomplice who they say orchestrated and carried out a series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[92041,9903,64,63,2025,92042,19601,62849,44,2733],"class_list":["post-132941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-alex-ryvchin","tag-antisemitism","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charges","tag-dover-heights","tag-graffiti","tag-maroubra","tag-news","tag-nsw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}