Investigators say clothing of five women possibly identified them as targets, while more antisemitic graffiti discovered in nearby Randwick. Eggs and verbal abuse have been hurled at five young women near Bondi beach and more cars and buildings have been spray-painted in Sydney in the latest antisemitic attacks, police say. Investigators believe the women were targeted by three young men in a silver Mazda that later crashed on to a kerb with the engine running on Saturday night.
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The men allegedly fled before the car was found in Rose Bay. It contained a carton of eggs and an empty jerrycan, police said. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email. Strike Force Pearl’s commander, Det Supt Darren Newman, said investigators were treating the matter as an antisemitic attack with the young women’s clothing possibly identifying them as targets. “We’re looking at hundreds and hundreds of hours of CCTV, we’re trying to track vehicles and persons in all of these matters,” he told reporters on Sunday.
“We will make sure that we go after every single person involved in those offences. We will track you down. What you’ve done last night is highly offensive – it’s criminal.”. Sign up to Breaking News Australia. Get the most important news as it breaks. after newsletter promotion. Vandals also sprayed cars and garage doors in nearby Randwick with antisemitic obscenities, mirroring previous graffiti attacks in the city’s east.
Newman said under his command 11 arrests had been made, 66 charges laid and 12 investigations launched, with some of the attacks linked. He ruled out any link between the events of Saturday night and a caravan found on Sydney’s north-west outskirts that contained explosives and addresses of Jewish targets. The Australian federal police are investigating whether overseas actors or others have paid local criminals to carry out antisemitic attacks.
