The 26-year-old suspect is charged with one count of attempted use of fire to damage and destroy a building used in interstate commerce.
at a New Jersey synagogue over the weekend, federal prosecutors announced on Wednesday.
U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said Nicholas Malindretos, 26, from Clifton, N.J. was captured on surveillance video lighting the makeshift explosive on fire and throwing it at the door of Temple Ner Tamid Jewish Congregation in Bloomfield. He was charged with one count of attempted use of fire to damage and destroy a building used in interstate commerce.
“No one should find that their lives are at risk by exercising their faith,” Sellinger said. “The defendant is alleged to have gone to a synagogue in the middle of the night and maliciously attempted to damage and destroy it using a firebomb. Protecting communities of faith and houses of worship is core to this office’s mission.
New Jersey recorded 370 antisemitic incidents last year, making it the second highest number recorded in any state across the country after New York, according to the civil rights group that fights antisemitism, the Anti-Defamation League.
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