Prime Minister condemns ‘horrific’ antisemitic arson attack on ambulances

Evening Standard

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has called for communities to “all stand together” in the face of an “horrific antisemitic attack”, which saw four Jewish community ambulances set on fire.The Metropolitan Police confirmed the incident is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime, with CCTV showing three individuals setting light to an ambulance in the early hours of Monday morning.The Prime Minister was speaking during a visit to St Paul's Church of England Primary School in south-east London.

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00:28This is a horrific

00:29anti-Semitic attack

00:32and of course

00:34my thoughts, I think all of our thoughts

00:36will be with those

00:38in the vicinity, the residents

00:39who are understandably very

00:42concerned, a Jewish community across the

00:44country deeply concerned

00:45I've already been in touch with community leaders

00:48this morning and will continue

00:50to do so during the day

00:51but anti-Semitism has no place

00:53in our society and it's really

00:55important that we all stand together

00:58at a moment like this

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